Construction of a broad-host-range Tn7-based vector for single-copy PBAD-controlled gene expression in Gram-negative bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 718-721

  Damron, F Heath ^a   McKenney, Elizabeth S ^a   Schweizer, Herbert P ^b   Goldberg, Joanna B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED GENE EXPRESSION; DELIVERY VECTOR; EXPRESSION CASSETTE; GENETIC APPLICATIONS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RANGE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSPOSON;

DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; HOST SPECIFICITY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84871898456     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02926-12     Document Type: Article

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