The identification of Mycobacterium marinum genes differentially expressed in macrophage phagosomes using promoter fusions to green fluorescent protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1167-1177

  Barker, Lucia P ^a   Brooks, Diane M ^a   Small, P L C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIBRARY; MACROPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHAGOSOME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELL LINE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; PHAGOSOMES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031656741     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00996.x     Document Type: Article

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