β-Glucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile reporter in Actinomycetes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5370-5383

  Myronovskyi, Maksym ^b,c   Welle, Elisabeth ^b   Fedorenko, Viktor ^c   Luzhetskyy, Andriy ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APRAMYCIN; BIOSYNTHETIC GENE CLUSTER; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GLUCURONIDASE; REGULATORY GENES; REPORTER SYSTEMS; SUICIDE VECTORS; TRANSLATIONAL FUSION;

AMINO ACIDS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BACTERIA;

APRAMYCIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; DITERPENE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; GLYCOSIDE; HYBRID PROTEIN; LYSINE; NEBRAMYCIN; PHENALINOLACTONE A;

BACTERIUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKER; POLYPLOIDY; PROTEIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; START CODON;

ACTINOBACTERIA; CODON, INITIATOR; DITERPENES; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GLUCURONIDASE; GLYCOSIDES; LYSINE; NEBRAMYCIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS);

EID: 79961095615     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00434-11     Document Type: Article

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