Development of transcriptional fusions to assess Leptospira interrogans promoter activity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Cerqueira, Gustavo M ^a,c   Souza, Natalie M ^a   Araújo, Eduardo R ^a   Barros, Aline T ^a   Morais, Zenaide M ^b   Vasconcellos, Sílvio A ^b   Nascimento, Ana L T O ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LEPTOSPIRAL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE A; PROTEIN LIPL41; PROTEIN PSPH2; SPHINGOMYELIN PHOSPHODIESTERASE; SPHINGOMYELINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE PROBE; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MAMMAL; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS;

ANIMALIA; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BIFLEXA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LIGA; MAMMALIA; SPIROCHAETALES;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE FUSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952785324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017409     Document Type: Article

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