Positively regulated bacterial expression systems

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-30

  Brautaset, Trygve ^a   Lale, Rahmi ^b   Valla, Svein ^b  

^a SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; ARABINOSE; ARAC PROTEIN; BENZENE; CAPROLACTAM; CYCLOHEXANONE; NISIN; PEPTIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; RHAMNOSE; SUCROSE; THIOSTREPTON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XYLOSE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CARBON METABOLISM; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DELETION MUTANT; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HOST; LACTIC ACID BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LACTOBACILLUS SAKEI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHAGE DISPLAY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATOR GENE; SHORT SURVEY; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; STREPTOMYCETACEAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; UP-REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; STREPTOMYCINEAE;

EID: 63849203156     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2008.00048.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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