A simple screen to identify promoters conferring high levels of phenotypic noise

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Freed, Nikki E ^a   Silander, Olin K ^a   Stecher, Bärbel ^a   Böhm, Alex ^b   Hardt, Wolf Dietrich ^a   Ackermann, Martin ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; FLAGELLUM; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOGENICITY; PHENOTYPE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SALMONELLA ENTERICA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 58149147307     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000307     Document Type: Article

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