Comprehensive set of integrative plasmid vectors for copper-inducible gene expression in Myxococcus xanthus

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2515-2521

  Gómez Santos, Nuria ^a   Treuner Lange, Anke ^b   Moraleda Muñoz, Aurelio ^a   García Bravo, Elena ^a   García Hernández, Raquel ^a   Martínez Cayuela, Marina ^c   Pérez, Juana ^a   Søgaard Andersen, Lotte ^a   Muñoz Dorado, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASAL EXPRESSION; BIOTECHNOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS; CELL VIABILITY; CELLULAR DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEMENTATION; COPPER CONCENTRATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXPRESSION VECTORS; FRUITING BODIES; INDUCIBLE GENE EXPRESSION; MODEL SYSTEM; MULTICELLULAR DEVELOPMENT; MULTICOPPER OXIDASE; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PLASMID VECTORS; SECONDARY METABOLITES;

CELL CULTURE; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; VECTORS;

COPPER;

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COPPER;

BACTERIUM; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; COPPER; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH RATE; MOTILITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLASMID; SECONDARY METABOLITE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; EVALUATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; LOCOMOTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; COPPER; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; LOCOMOTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

EID: 84861177204     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07502-11     Document Type: Article

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