Plasmid vectors for Gram-positive bacteria switching from high to low copy number

Gene

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 175-182

  Renault, Pierre ^a   Corthier, Gerard ^a   Goupil, Nathalie ^a   Delorme, Christine ^a   Ehrlich, S Dusko ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Cloning vectors; Expression vectors; Gene dosage; Luciferase; pAM 1; Promoter probe; Theta replication

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE NUMBER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICON; RNA TRANSLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030457463     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00554-9     Document Type: Article

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