Construction and evaluation of plasmid vectors optimized for constitutive and regulated gene expression in Burkholderia cepacia complex isolates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 5956-5964

  Lefebre, Matthew D ^a   Valvano, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; PROTEINS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARABINOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID VECTOR; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC SELECTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ACANTHAMOEBA POLYPHAGA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036955925     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.5956-5964.2002     Document Type: Article

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