A bifunctional transposon mini-Tn5gfp-km which can be used to select for promoter fusions and report gene expression levels in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 37-42

  Tang, Xie ^a   Lu, Bai F ^a   Pan, Shen Q ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Artificial operon; gfp; nptII; Selection reporter transposon; Transcriptional fusion

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; GENTAMICIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; KANAMYCIN; KANAMYCIN KINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; TRANSPOSON;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS;

EID: 0032842702     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00388-2     Document Type: Article

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