System-level genome editing in microbes

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2016, Pages 113-122

  Csörgő, Bálint ^a   Nyerges, Ákos ^a   Pósfai, György ^a   Fehér, Tamás ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; GENOMIC DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA GUIDED ENDONUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR LIKE EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE; GUIDE RNA;

BACTERIOPHAGE; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME EDITING TECHNIQUE; METABOLIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGUS; GENE EDITING; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

BACTERIA; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; ENDONUCLEASES; FUNGI; GENE EDITING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; RNA, GUIDE;

EID: 84979209149     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: 18790364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2016.07.005     Document Type: Review

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