Harnessing heterologous and endogenous CRISPR-Cas machineries for efficient markerless genome editing in Clostridium

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Pyne, Michael E ^a,d   Bruder, Mark R ^a   Moo Young, Murray ^a   Chung, Duane A ^a,b,c   Chou, C Perry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Neemo Inc   (Canada)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSTRIDIUM PASTEURIANUM; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENE DELETION; GENOME; MACHINE; MOTIVATION; PLASMID; SPECIES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EDITING; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; GENE EDITING; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS;

EID: 84971265340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25666     Document Type: Article

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