Construction and use of a versatile set of broad-host-range cloning and expression vectors based on the RK2 replicon

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 370-379

  Blatny, Janet Martha ^a   Brautaset, Trygve ^a   Winther Larsen, Hanne C ^a   Haugan, Kåre ^b   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Nord Trøndelag University College   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOSE; MUTASE; PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE; PLASMID VECTOR; XANTHAN;

ACETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CLONING VECTOR; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REGULATOR GENE; REPLICON; XANTHOMONAS;

ACETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCONACETOBACTER XYLINUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0030942268     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.2.370-379.1997     Document Type: Article

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