Modulation of ColE1-like plasmid replication for recombinant gene expression

Recent Patents on DNA and Gene Sequences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-73

  Camps, Manel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cole1; D loops; Dimer catastrophe; Fermentation; Mutagenesis; Plasmid incompatibility; Plasmid instability; R loops; RNA degradation; Supercoiling

Indexed keywords

RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

BIOMASS PRODUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MALNUTRITION; RECOMBINANT GENE; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCIN PLASMIDS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 77950548092     PISSN: 18722156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/187221510790410822     Document Type: Review

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