A Targetron System for Gene Targeting in Thermophiles and Its Application in Clostridium thermocellum

• Georg Mohr ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Mohr, Wei Hong

  Affiliation Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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• Wei Hong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Mohr, Wei Hong

  Affiliations Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, and Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Jie Zhang,

  Affiliations Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, and Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Gu-zhen Cui,

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, and Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China

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• Yunfeng Yang,

  Affiliation State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment, Simulation and Pollution Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China

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• Qiu Cui,

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, and Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China

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• Ya-jun Liu ,

  * E-mail: lambowitz@austin.utexas.edu (AL); liuyj@qibebt.ac.cn (YL)

  Affiliation Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Energy Genetics, and Key Laboratory of Biofuels, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, People’s Republic of China

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• Alan M. Lambowitz

  * E-mail: lambowitz@austin.utexas.edu (AL); liuyj@qibebt.ac.cn (YL)

  Affiliation Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States of America

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