High-yield, zero-leakage expression system with a translational switch using site-specific unnatural amino acid incorporation

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1718-1725

  Minaba, Masaomi ^a   Kato, Yusuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-IODOTYROSINE; IODOTYROSINE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; GENETICS, MICROBIAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MONOIODOTYROSINE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84894044081     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.03417-13     Document Type: Article

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