A vector for promoter trapping in Bacillus cereus

Gene

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 297-305

  Dunn, Anne K ^a   Handelsman, Jo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; GFP

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL SELECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACILLUS CEREUS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; DNA PRIMERS; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; VALDIVIA;

EID: 0033590591     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00544-7     Document Type: Article

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