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SUBMITTER: Allers T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC348920 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Allers Thorsten T Ngo Hien-Ping HP Mevarech Moshe M Lloyd Robert G RG
Applied and environmental microbiology 20040201 2
Since most archaea are extremophilic and difficult to cultivate, our current knowledge of their biology is confined largely to comparative genomics and biochemistry. Haloferax volcanii offers great promise as a model organism for archaeal genetics, but until now there has been a lack of a wide variety of selectable markers for this organism. We describe here isolation of H. volcanii leuB and trpA genes encoding 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase and tryptophan synthase, respectively, and developmen ...[more]