Renaissance of traditional DNA transfer strategies for improvement of industrial lactic acid bacteria

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2019, Pages 61-68

  Bron, Peter A ^a,b   Marcelli, Barbara ^a,c   Mulder, Joyce ^a,c   van der Els, Simon ^a,d   Morawska, Luiza P ^a,c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,c   Kok, Jan ^a,c   Kleerebezem, Michiel ^a,d  

^a BE Basic Foundation   (Netherlands)

^b NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENE TRANSFER; GENES; YARN;

DNA TRANSFER; EXTRACELLULAR; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INDUSTRIAL STRAIN; LACTIC ACID BACTERIA; MOLECULAR EXCHANGES;

LACTIC ACID;

NANOTUBE;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE; COMX GENE; CONJUGATION; CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXOSOME; FERMENTATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EDITING; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOMIC ISLAND; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; FOOD CONTROL; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; LACTOBACILLALES; PROCEDURES;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; CRISPR-CAS SYSTEMS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; GENE EDITING; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; LACTOBACILLALES; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85054564976     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2018.09.004     Document Type: Review

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