Rhamnose-inducible gene expression in Listeria monocytogenes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Fieseler, Lars ^a,b   Schmitter, Sibylle ^a   Teiserskas, Justinas ^a,c   Loessner, Martin J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLUCOSE; RHAMNOSE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSOL; ENZYME INDUCTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CELL LINE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MACROPHAGES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RHAMNOSE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84865176387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043444     Document Type: Article

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