Separate-component-stabilization system for protein and DNA production without the use of antibiotics

BioTechniques

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 775-781

  Szpirer, Cédric Y ^a   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIA; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CHROMOSOMES; DNA; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; STABILIZATION;

DNA PRODUCTION; GENE THERAPY; PLASMIDS; POISON GENES;

PROTEINS;

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDOTE; POISON; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ANTIDOTE GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLONING; GENE; GENE INSERTION; GENE THERAPY; INOCULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; POISON GENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION, SYNTHESIS AND MODIFICATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 18444380606     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/05385RR02     Document Type: Article

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