Alternative Sigma Factor Over-Expression Enables Heterologous Expression of a Type II Polyketide Biosynthetic Pathway in Escherichia coli

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Stevens, David Cole ^a   Conway, Kyle R ^a   Pearce, Nelson ^a   Villegas Peñaranda, Luis Roberto ^a   Garza, Anthony G ^b   Boddy, Christopher N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYKETIDE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR E; SIGMA FACTOR F; SIGMA FACTOR FECI; SIGMA FACTOR H; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; SIGMA FACTOR S; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOINFORMATICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OXYTETRACYCLINE B GENE; OXYTETRACYCLINE F GENE; OXYTETRACYCLINE K GENE; OXYTETRACYCLINE P GENE; OXYTETRACYCLINE T GENE; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES RIMOSUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXYTETRACYCLINE; PEPTIDES; POLYKETIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84878387809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064858     Document Type: Article

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