Parameters affecting gene expression from the Pm promoter in gram-negative bacteria

Metabolic Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 79-91

  Winther Larsen, Hanne C ^a,b   Josefsen, Kjell D ^a,c   Brautaset, Trygve ^a   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLONED GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; XANTHAN; XYLS GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

EID: 0034044267     PISSN: 10967176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/mben.1999.0142     Document Type: Article

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