Codon-optimized fluorescent proteins designed for expression in low-GC gram-positive bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2099-2110

  Sastalla, Inka ^a   Chim, Kannie ^a   Cheung, Gordon Y C ^a   Pomerantsev, Andrei P ^a   Leppla, Stephen H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; CODON USAGES; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; GC CONTENTS; GENE TRANSCRIPTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOST ORGANISMS; PHOTOACTIVATABLE; PROTECTIVE ANTIGENS; PROTEIN EXPRESSIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VIRULENCE PLASMIDS; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEINS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRANSCRIPTION;

FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BICARBONATE; CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN; BACTERIUM; BICARBONATE; DNA; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMA; PLASMID; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CODON USAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOACTIVATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPORTER GENE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

EID: 63849136060     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02066-08     Document Type: Article

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