Development of a Gene Transfer System in Clostridium Scindens VPI 12708

Clostridium scindens VPI 12708 (previously known as Eubacterium sp. VPI 12708) is a bile-acid dehydroxylating bacterium originally isolated from the feces of a colon cancer patient. Many genes required for bile acid 7-a dehydroxylation are found on a large bile acid inducible operon (bai) that has b...

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Main Author: Ramasubbaiah, Rashmi
Format: Others
Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2004
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Online Access:http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/245
http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1248&context=theses