Engineered transcriptional systems for cyanobacterial biotechnology

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

Volumn 2, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Camsund, Daniel ^a   Lindblad, Peter ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Constitutive promoters; Cyanobacteria; Cyanobacterial promoters; Inducible promoters; Promoter engineering; Regulated promoters; Synthetic biology; Transcriptional engineering

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

CONSTITUTIVE PROMOTERS; CYANOBACTERIA; CYANOBACTERIAL PROMOTERS; INDUCIBLE PROMOTER; REGULATED PROMOTERS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ENGINEERINGS;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84922546725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22964185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2014.00040     Document Type: Review

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