Shuttle expression plasmids for genetic studies in Streptococcus mutans

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2275-2282

  Biswas, Indranil ^a   Jha, Jyoti K ^a   Fromm, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPLICON; SHUTTLE VECTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPLICON; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 51149100535     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/019265-0     Document Type: Article

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