Construction and expression of sugar kinase transcriptional gene fusions by using the Sinorhizobium meliloti ORFeome

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 6756-6765

  Humann, Jodi L ^a   Schroeder, Brenda K ^a   Mortimer, Michael W ^a   House, Brent L ^a   Yurgel, Svetlana N ^a   Maloney, Scott C ^a   Ward, Kristel L ^a   Fallquist, Heather M ^a   Ziemkiewicz, Hope T ^a   Kahn, Michael L ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSION REACTIONS; GENES; SUGAR (SUCROSE); SUGARS;

BACTERIAL; BASAL LEVELS; CARBON SOURCES; GENE FUSIONS; GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IN-VIVO; OPEN READING FRAMES; REPORTER GENES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SUGAR KINASES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL FUSIONS; VECTOR SYSTEMS;

VECTORS;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; SUGAR;

BIOASSAY; CARBON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; PLASMID; PROTEIN; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SUGAR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONIDASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STAINING AND LABELING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 55049088134     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01468-08     Document Type: Article

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