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Transposon mutagenesis in Halomonas eurihalina.
Research in microbiology - 1 Jan 2000
Llamas I, Argandoña M, Quesada E, del Moral A
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We have established a transposon mutagenesis procedure for the moderate halophile Halomonas eurihalina, a bacteria that produces an exopolysaccharide (EPS) of considerable biotechnological interest. We used suicide plasmids pUT and pSUP102 to introduce the transposons mini-Tn5 and Tn1732 into H. eurihalina via Escherichia coli mediated conjugation. Southern hybridization analysis demonstrated that insertions of...
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