Improved subtilisin YaB production in Bacillus subtilis using engineered synthetic expression control sequences

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 25, 2006, Pages 9405-9410

  Wang, Jyh Perng ^a   Yeh, Chuan Mei ^a   Tsai, Ying Chieh ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Subtilisin YaB; Synthetic expression control sequence

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ELASTASE YAB; BACTERIAL DNA; RECOMBINANT DNA; SUBTILISIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RECOMBINANT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; SUBTILISINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 33846183593     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf061982f     Document Type: Article

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