Engineering gram-negative microbial cell factories using transposon vectors

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1498, Issue , 2017, Pages 273-293

  Martínez García, Esteban ^a   Aparicio, Tomás ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a   Nikel, Pablo I ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Genome editing; Metabolic engineering; Microbial cell factory; Mini transposon; Pseudomonas putida; Synthetic biology; Tn 5 transposon

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECTOPIC EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LYSOGENIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSPOSON; CELL ENGINEERING; CHROMOSOME; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

CELL ENGINEERING; CHROMOSOMES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; MUTAGENESIS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84990973247     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6472-7_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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