Investigating essential gene function in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using an efficient CRISPR interference system

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 18, 2016, Pages

  Singh, Atul K ^a   Carette, Xavier ^a   Potluri, Lakshmi Prasad ^a   Sharp, Jared D ^a   Xu, Ranfei ^a   Prisic, Sladjana ^a   Husson, Robert N ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAS9 PROTEIN; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; GUIDE RNA; ISONIAZID; METHOTREXATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84992170651     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw625     Document Type: Article

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