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RAIL: A new tool for defining bacterial promoter regions
1Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, Toledo, OH Jyl.Matson@utoledo.edu.
Abstract:
In this issue of the Journal of Bacteriology, Hustmyer and colleagues describe a new method for rapidly generating reporter libraries (Hustmyer citation). This RAIL technique (Rapid Arbitrary PCR Insertion Libraries) uses arbitrary PCR and isothermal DNA assembly to insert random fragments of promoter regions into reporter plasmids, resulting in libraries that can be screened to identify regions required for gene expression. This technique will likely be useful for a number of different genetic applications.
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