Identification of a sodium chloride-regulated promoter in Lactococcus lactis by single-copy chromosomal fusion with a reporter gene

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 257, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 681-685

  Sanders, J W ^a   Venema, G ^a   Kok, J ^a   Leenhouts, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Lactococcus lactis; NaCl regulation; Single copy transcriptional lacZ fusions

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE ION; DNA FRAGMENT;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; RIBOSOME; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0031920842     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050697     Document Type: Article

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