A metal-repressed promoter from Gram-positive bacillus subtilis is highly active and metal-induced in Gram-negative Cupriavidus metallidurans

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 469-477

  Ribeiro dos Santos, Gabriela ^a   Biondo, Ronaldo ^a   de Freitas Quadros, Oeber ^a   José Vicente, Elisabete ^a   Schenberg, Ana Clara Guerrini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Cupriavidus metallidurans; Escherichia coli; Heterologous promoter; Metal induced expression

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; E. COLI; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; EXPRESSION LEVELS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HETEROLOGOUS PROMOTERS; HETEROLOGOUS PROTEINS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; PROMOTER ACTIVITIES; REGULATED GENES; REPORTER GENE; TOXIC METALS; LAC PROMOTERS; METAL-INDUCED EXPRESSION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOREMEDIATION; CADMIUM; COBALT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MANGANESE; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; METAL IONS; METALS; PROTEINS; TOXICITY; ZINC COMPOUNDS; CLONING;

COPPER;

CADMIUM; COBALT; COPPER; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; IRON; MANGANESE; METAL ION; NICKEL; ZINC; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COPPER ION; LAC PROTEIN; METAL REGULATED GENE A; PAN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUPRIAVIDUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; BACTERIAL GENE; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CUPRIAVIDUS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC OPERON; METALS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CUPRIAVIDUS METALLIDURANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 78650201354     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.22820     Document Type: Article

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