Integrative vectors for constructing single-copy transcriptional fusions between Bacillus subtilis promoters and various reporter genes encoding heat-stable enzymes

Gene

Volumn 182, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 33-36

  Mogk, Axel ^a   Hayward, Richard ^a,b   Schumann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bgaB; cat; Recombinant DNA; Reporter genes; xylE

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA LACTAMASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ENZYME; NEOMYCIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA INTEGRATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE; REPORTER GENE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHAPERONINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DRUG RESISTANCE; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0030571520     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00447-7     Document Type: Article

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