Novel broad host range shuttle vectors for expression in Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas putida

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 71-79

  Troeschel, Sonja Christina ^a   Thies, Stephan ^a   Link, Olga ^a   Real, Catherine Isabell ^a   Knops, Katja ^a   Wilhelm, Susanne ^a   Rosenau, Frank ^b   Jaeger, Karl Erich ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broad host range shuttle vector; Enzyme expression; Lipase

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE GENES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COPY NUMBER; CUTINASE; E. COLI; EXPRESSION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSARIUM SOLANI PISI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOST STRAIN; INDUCIBLE PROMOTER; LIPASE A; LIPOLYTIC ENZYMES; MULTIPLE CLONING; PLASMID DNA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SHUTTLE VECTOR; SUBTILIS;

ENZYMES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LIPASES; RNA;

VECTORS;

ACID LIPASE; CUTINASE; PLASMID DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME; CLONING VECTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXYLIC ESTER HYDROLASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUSARIUM; GENETIC VECTORS; LIPASE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; FUSARIUM SOLANI; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84864630949     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: 18734863     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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