A versatile bacterial expression vector based on the synthetic biology plasmid pSB1

Protein Expression and Purification

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 198-204

  Škrlj, Nives ^a   Erčulj, Nina ^a   Dolinar, Marko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Bacterial expression vector; His 10 tag; lac operator; OmpA signal sequence; Synthetic biology; T7 promoter

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; CYSTATIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SYNTHETIC DNA; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHICKENS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYSTATINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, SYNTHETIC; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASM; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 58749103310     PISSN: 10465928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pep.2008.10.019     Document Type: Article

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