Green marker for colonies of Bacillus subtilis

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 579-583

  Itaya, Mitsuhiro ^a   Shaheduzzaman, Syed M ^a,b   Matsui, Kuniko ^a   Omori, Akira ^a   Tsuji, Takashi ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI KASEI INST OF LIFE SCI   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Fused protein; Green fluorescence protein; Multi copy plasmid

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACTERIAL DNA; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLUORESCENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS;

EID: 0035293122     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.65.579     Document Type: Article

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