Generation of an Artificial Double Promoter for Protein Expression in Bacillus subtilis through a Promoter Trap System

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Yang, Mingming ^a   Zhang, Weiwei ^a   Ji, Shengyue ^a   Cao, Pinghua ^a   Chen, Yulin ^a   Zhao, Xin ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84873657319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056321     Document Type: Article

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