Identification of a promoter region on the Halomonas elongata cryptic plasmid pHE1 employing the inaZ reporter gene of Pseudomonas syringae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 45-51

  Tegos, Georgios ^a   Vargas, Carmen ^a,b   Vartholomatos, Georgios ^a   Perysinakis, Angelos ^a   Nieto, Joaquin J ^b   Ventosa, Antonio ^b   Drainas, Constantin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ice nucleation; Moderate halophile; Promoter analysis; Reporter gene

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HALOPHILIC BACTERIUM; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; HALOBACTERIACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; HALOMONAS ELONGATA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE;

EID: 0030920477     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00299-1     Document Type: Article

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