Harnessing Bacterial Toxins for Allelic Exchange
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...Improvement of pCVD442, a suicide plasmid for gene allele exchange in bacteria." Plasmid 51.3 (2004): 246-255. PubMed...one of eight bacterial toxin genes isolated from E. coli or Psuedomonas aeruginosa. These toxins were a ... Gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae including in E. coli O157:H7, Shigella flexneri, Enterobacter cloacae...exogenous enzymes, require multiple transformation and plasmid curing steps, and can generate off-target mutations...a mutated allele introduced from a conjugative plasmid replaces the chromosomal copy. This is a versatile...
These two steps are (Figure 1):
The initial plasmid integration step (the so-called “single crossover... an allelic exchange experiment? Find the pTOX plasmids here!
Continued development of new allelic exchange...