A roadmap for gene system development in Clostridium

Anaerobe

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 104-112

  Minton, Nigel P ^a   Ehsaan, Muhammad ^a   Humphreys, Christopher M ^a   Little, Gareth T ^a   Baker, Jonathan ^a   Henstra, Anne M ^a   Liew, Fungmin ^a   Kelly, Michelle L ^a   Sheng, Lili ^a   Schwarz, Katrin ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allelic exchange; ClosTron; Counterselection marker; Fluoroorotic acid; Gene transfer; Knock in; Knock out; pyrE; Restriction modification

Indexed keywords

FLUOROOROTIC ACID; HYDROLASE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; OROTIDINE 5' PHOSPHATE DECARBOXYLASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; SIGMA FACTOR; URACIL;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; CLOSTRIDIUM BEIJERINCKII; CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PASTEURIANUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CLOSTRIDIUM SPOROGENES; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA TRANSFER; GENE DELETION; GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GEOBACILLUS; GEOBACILLUS THERMOGLUCOSIDASIUS; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRE GENE; REPLICON; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION;

ANIMALS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION; REPLICON;

EID: 84973897665     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.05.011     Document Type: Article

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