Bacterial luciferase is naturally destabilized in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and can be used to monitor changes in gene expression

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 243-249

  Roberts, Esteban A ^a   Clark, Amanda ^a   Friedman, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Destabilized; groEL2; Luciferase; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Real time PCR; Reporter

Indexed keywords

ALANINE DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME STABILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KINETICS; MONITORING; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

ALANINE DEHYDROGENASE; AMINO ACID OXIDOREDUCTASES; CHAPERONIN 60; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GROEL PROTEIN; HALF-LIFE; LUCIFERASES; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; VIBRIO;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; VIBRIO; VIBRIO HARVEYI;

EID: 12844259047     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.12.010     Document Type: Article

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