Substrate-induced gene expression (SIGEX) screening of metagenome libraries

Nature Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1202-1212

  Uchiyama, Taku ^a   Watanabe, Kazuya ^b,c,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA RESTRICTION ENZYMES; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 50249171225     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2008.96     Document Type: Article

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