Transcriptional regulators à la carte: Engineering new effector specificities in bacterial regulatory proteins

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-42

  Galvão, Teca Calcagno ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOSENSORS; MOLECULES;

BACTERIAL REGULATORY PROTEINS; OPERON; REGULATORY PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORS;

PROTEINS;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTARABINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOSENSOR; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; DNA SHUFFLING; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 31944447797     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2005.12.002     Document Type: Review

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