Construction of versatile high-level expression vectors for Bartonella henselae and the use of green fluorescent protein as a new expression marker

Gene

Volumn 215, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 223-229

  Dehio, Michaela ^a   Knorre, Alexander ^a,b   Lanz, Christa ^a   Dehio, Christoph ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INST FÜR BIOLOGIE   (Germany)

^b TUMOR BIOLOGY CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broad host range plasmids; Flow cytometry; Gene expression; GFP; tac lacUV5

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; CELL INTERACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

AEQUOREA VICTORIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA HENSELAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES; VICTORIA;

EID: 0032581533     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00319-9     Document Type: Article

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