Counterselection employing mutated pheS for markerless genetic deletion in Bacteroides species

Anaerobe

Volumn 42, Issue , 2016, Pages 81-88

  Kino, Yasuhiro ^a   Nakayama Imaohji, Haruyuki ^a   Fujita, Masashi ^a,b   Tada, Ayano ^a   Yoneda, Saori ^a   Murakami, Kazuya ^a   Hashimoto, Masahito ^c   Hayashi, Tetsuya ^d   Okazaki, Katsuichiro ^b   Kuwahara, Tomomi ^a  

^a KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteroides; p chloro phenylalanine; pheS; tRNA

Indexed keywords

PHENYLALANINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CULTURE MEDIUM; FENCLONINE; GENETIC MARKER; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH INHIBITION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHES GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL CAPSULE; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; LETHAL GENE; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHARMACOLOGY; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDES; CULTURE MEDIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FENCLONINE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, LETHAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VECTORS; MUTATION; PHENYLALANINE-TRNA LIGASE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84988329208     PISSN: 10759964     EISSN: 10958274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anaerobe.2016.09.004     Document Type: Article

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