A broad-host-range mobilizable shuttle vector for the construction of transcriptional fusions to β-galactosidase in Gram-positive bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 193-198

  Poyart, Claire ^a   Trieu Cuot, Patrick ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

galactosidase; Gram positive bacteria; Mobilizable shuttle vector; Transcriptional fusion

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BINDING SITE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031573015     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00423-0     Document Type: Article

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