Food-grade cloning and expression system for Lactococcus lactis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1008-1013

  Platteeuw, Christ ^a,b   Van Alen Boerrigter, Ingrid ^a   Van Schalkwijk, Saskia ^a   De Vos, Willem M ^a,b  

^a NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN;

EID: 0030067760     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.3.1008-1013.1996     Document Type: Article

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