A propionate-inducible expression system for enteric bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6856-6862

  Lee, Sung Kuk ^a   Keasling, Jay D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE; GENES; PROTEINS;

ENTERIC BACTERIA; GREEN FLOURESCENT PROTEIN (GFP);

BACTERIA;

GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID VECTOR; PROPIONIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOGRAM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PRPBCDE GENE; REPORTER GENE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CITRATES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROPIONATES;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

EID: 32044474425     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.6856-6862.2005     Document Type: Article

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