Overexpression of the tcp Gene Cluster Using the T7 RNA Polymerase/Promoter System and Natural Transformation-Mediated Genetic Engineering of Vibrio cholerae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Borgeaud, Sandrine ^a   Blokesch, Melanie ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM PILUS; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; T7 GENE; TCP GENE; TRANSPOSON; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRAL PROTEINS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84872122938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053952     Document Type: Article

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