Inducible gene expression mediated by a repressor-operator system isolated from Lactococcus lactis bacteriophage r1t

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1331-1341

  Nauta, Arjen ^a   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b   Karsens, Harma ^a   Smit, Egbert ^a   Venema, Gerard ^a   Kok, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, VIRAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENES, VIRAL; LAC OPERON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIOPHAGE R1T; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LACTOCOCCUS PHAGE 936; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029878507     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02477.x     Document Type: Article

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