Application of gfat as a novel selection marker to mediate gene expression

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Wu, Guogan ^a,b   Sun, Yu ^a   Qu, Wei ^a   Huang, Ying ^b   Lu, Ling ^b   Li, Lun ^c   Shao, Weilan ^a,b  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Microbes and Functional Genomics and College of Life Sciences

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSAMINE; GLUTAMINE FRUCTOSE 6 PHOSPHATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COMPONENT S, GLUTAMATE MUTASE PROTEIN, BACTERIA; ENDO 1,4 BETA XYLANASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; LOXP SITE; MICROBIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TRANSGENIC ORGANISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE; THERMOMYCES LANUGINOSUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENDO-1,4-BETA XYLANASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GLUCOSAMINE; GLUTAMINE-FRUCTOSE-6-PHOSPHATE TRANSAMINASE (ISOMERIZING); MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLASMIDS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79951996839     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017082     Document Type: Article

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