A comparative analysis of the properties of regulated promoter systems commonly used for recombinant gene expression in Escherichia coli

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Balzer, Simone ^a   Kucharova, Veronika ^a   Megerle, Judith ^b   Lale, Rahmi ^a   Brautaset, Trygve ^c   Valla, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SINTEF MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY   (Norway)

Author keywords

AraC PBAD; LacI PT7lac; LacI Ptrc; Recombinant expression; Regulator promoter systems; Systematic comparison; XylS Pm; XylS Pm ML1 17

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL HETEROGENEITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CASSETTE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RECOMBINANT GENE; REGULATOR GENE; REPLICON; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WILD TYPE;

ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VECTORS; LAC REPRESSORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84875078664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2859-12-26     Document Type: Article

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