Construction of an efficient expression system for Agrobacterium tumefaciens based on the coliphage T5 promoter

Gene

Volumn 242, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 105-114

  Wang, Yulei ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Aindrila ^a   Howitz, Victoria R ^b   Binns, Andrew N ^c   Lynn, David G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b CEDAR CREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Signal transduction; vir gene induction; virA; virG

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; COLIPHAGE; COLIPHAGE T5; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE INDUCTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ACETOPHENONES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; HISTIDINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; T-PHAGES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA; VIR; VIRUSES (INFECTIVE AGENTS);

EID: 0033956350     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00541-7     Document Type: Article

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