A novel replication element from an Antarctic plasmid as a tool for the expression of proteins at low temperature

Extremophiles

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 257-264

  Tutino, Maria Luisa ^a   Duilio, Angela ^a   Parrilli, Ermenegilda ^a   Remaut, Erik ^b   Sannia, Giovanni ^a   Marino, Gennaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Antarctic bacteria; Cold adapted plasmid; Gene expression; pMtBL; Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis; Shuttle vector

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; PLASMID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPLICON; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEINS; REPLICON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0035430835     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920100203     Document Type: Article

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