Heterologous expression of nonribosomal peptide synthetases in B. subtilis: Construction of a bi-functional B. subtilis/E. coli shuttle vector system

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 185-191

  Doekel, Sascha ^a   Eppelmann, Katrin ^a   Marahiel, Mohamed A ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Heterologous expression; Nonribosomal peptide synthetase; T5 phage promoter

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; PEPTIDE SYNTHASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PEPTIDE SYNTHASES; PEPTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI B; UNIDENTIFIED SHUTTLE VECTOR; VECTORS;

EID: 0037027535     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)00993-X     Document Type: Article

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