Application of the shsp gene, encoding a small heat shock protein, as a food-grade selection marker for lactic acid bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4408-4412

  El Demerdash, Hassan A M ^a,b   Heller, Knut J ^a   Geis, Arnold ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NUTRITION AND FOOD   (Germany)

^b SUEZ CANAL UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CLONING; DNA; GENES; PH EFFECTS; PROTEINS;

PLASMIDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PLASMID VECTOR;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

ACID TOLERANCE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MODIFICATION; EM GENE; FOOD GRADE CLONING SYSTEM; FOOD GRADE SELECTION MARKER; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; HEAT TOLERANCE; INCUBATION TIME; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH MEASUREMENT; PLASMID PHRM1; PLASMID PST04; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SHSP GENE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS ST11; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FERMENTATION; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PLASMIDS; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0042530403     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.69.8.4408-4412.2003     Document Type: Article

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