The expression of recombinant genes in Escherichia coli can be strongly stimulated at the transcript production level by mutating the DNA-region corresponding to the 5′-untranslated part of mRNA

Microbial Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 379-389

  Berg, Laila ^a   Lale, Rahmi ^a   Bakke, Ingrid ^a   Burroughs, Nigel ^b   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BETA LACTAMASE; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE; WILD TYPE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 77953573252     PISSN: 17517907     EISSN: 17517915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7915.2009.00107.x     Document Type: Article

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