Regulation of mtl operon promoter of Bacillus subtilis: Requirements of its use in expression vectors

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Morabbi Heravi, Kambiz ^a   Wenzel, Marian ^a   Altenbuchner, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activator; Catabolite repression; Mannitol operon; Prd; Pts

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACZ GENE; MTL GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 80054691607     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-10-83     Document Type: Article

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