Synthetic promoters functional in francisella novicida and escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 226-234

  McWhinnie, Ralph L ^a   Nano, Francis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANHYDROTETRACYCLINE; ARTIFICIAL OPERONS; BACTERIAL PATHOGENS; INTRACELLULAR PATHOGENS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCES; REPORTER GENE; SYNTHETIC DNA; TRANSCRIPTION START SITE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIUM; FELID; FRAGMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NUMERICAL MODEL;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84891140567     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02793-13     Document Type: Article

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