A T7 promoter-specific, inducible protein expression system for Bacillus subtilis

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 230-236

  Conrad, Birgit ^a   Savchenko, Regina S ^a,b   Breves, Roland ^a   Hofemeister, Jürgen ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Gene expression; Promoter specificity; Protein secretion; T7 RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

GALACTOSIDASE; GLUCOSIDASE; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS; XYLOSE;

EID: 0030063719     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050071     Document Type: Article

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