Broad-host-range shuttle vectors for screening of regulated promoter activity in viridans group streptococci: Isolation of a pH-regulated promoter

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 535-542

  Vriesema, Aldwin J M ^a,c   Brinkman, René ^a   Kok, Jan ^b   Dankert, Jacob ^a   Zaat, Sebastian A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b University of Groningen Center of Biological Sciences Haren   (Netherlands)

^c NUMICO RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; ELECTROPORATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENOME; HOST; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; ELECTROPORATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM ACETOBUTYLICUM; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII;

EID: 0033973216     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.2.535-542.2000     Document Type: Article

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