Green fluorescent protein is a reliable reporter for screening signal peptides functional in Lactobacillus reuteri

Journal of Microbiological Methods

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 181-186

  Wu, Chi Ming ^a   Chung, Tung Ching ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Green fluorescent protein; Lactobacillus reuteri; Signal peptide probe vector

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC SCREENING; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SUPERNATANT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS;

LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI;

EID: 33747805329     PISSN: 01677012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2006.03.009     Document Type: Article

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