Improved broad-host-range RK2 vectors useful for high and low regulated gene expression levels in gram-negative bacteria

Plasmid

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-51

  Blatny, Janet Martha ^a   Brautaset, Trygve ^a   Winther Larsen, Hanne C ^a   Karunakaran, Ponniah ^a   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLASMID VECTOR;

ACETOBACTER; ARTICLE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; XANTHOMONAS;

ACETOBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; GLUCONACETOBACTER XYLINUS; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0030819591     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1997.1294     Document Type: Article

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