Development of a repressible mycobacterial promoter system based on two transcriptional repressors

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Boldrin, Francesca ^a   Casonato, Stefano ^a   Dainese, Elisa ^a   Sala, Claudia ^b   Dhar, Neeraj ^b   Palù, Giorgio ^a   Riccardi, Giovanna ^c   Cole, Stewart T ^b   Manganelli, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FTSZ PROTEIN; PRISTINAMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE INDUCTION; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77955074030     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq235     Document Type: Article

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