A DNA fragment from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 mediates gene expression inducible by osmotic stress in E. coli

Current Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 108-116

  Milkowski, Garsten ^a,b   Quinones, Ariel ^b   Hagemann, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUCROSE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SALTS;

CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP. PCC 6803;

EID: 2642701711     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002849900347     Document Type: Article

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