pAM401-Based Shuttle Vectors That Enable Overexpression of Promoterless Genes and One-Step Purification of Tag Fusion Proteins Directly from Enterococcus faecalis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1262-1267

  Fujimoto, Shuhei ^a   Ike, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACA PROTEIN, ENTEROCOCCUS; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIOCIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; STREPTAVIDIN;

AFFINITY LABELING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOME;

AFFINITY LABELS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSOMES; STREPTAVIDIN;

EID: 0035290927     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.3.1262-1267.2001     Document Type: Article

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