Use of a tetracycline-inducible system for conditional expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 3077-3084

  Carroll, Paul ^a   Niranjala Muttucumaru, D G ^a   Parish, Tanya ^a  

^a Institute of Cell and Molecular Science   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASES; ENZYMES; FLUORESCENCE; GENES;

GENE REGULATION; GFP EXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIA; TUBERCULOSIS;

BACTERIA;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; TITRIMETRY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TETRACYCLINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 20444377222     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.6.3077-3084.2005     Document Type: Article

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