Dual-barcoded shotgun expression library sequencing for high-throughput characterization of functional traits in bacteria

Nature Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Mutalik, Vivek K ^a   Novichkov, Pavel S ^a   Price, Morgan N ^a   Owens, Trenton K ^a   Callaghan, Mark ^a   Carim, Sean ^b   Deutschbauer, Adam M ^a,b   Arkin, Adam P ^a,c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; FOSFOMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; HISTIDINE; MIPA PROTEIN; NICKEL; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; R FACTOR; RIBOSOME RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; TETRATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS;

DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 85060177548     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08177-8     Document Type: Article

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