Low copy expression vectors for use in Yersinia sp. and related organisms

Plasmid

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-42

  Obrist, Markus W ^a   Miller, Virginia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complementation vector; Low copy number; Tet operator; Tetracycline inducible; Yersinia

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; KANAMYCIN; SPECTINOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TET GENE; TISSUE CULTURE; YERSINIA;

DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC VECTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPLICATION ORIGIN; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TETRACYCLINES; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUKARYOTA; YERSINIA; YERSINIA SP.;

EID: 84861741993     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: 10959890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.plasmid.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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