A set of versatile brick vectors and promoters for the assembly, expression, and integration of synthetic operons in methylobacterium extorquens am1 and other alphaproteobacteria

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 430-443

  Schada Von Borzyskowski, Lennart ^a   Remus Emsermann, Mitja ^a   Weishaupt, Ramon ^a,b   Vorholt, Julia A ^a   Erb, Tobias J ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Laboratory of Biomaterials   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Agrobacterium; Alphaproteobacteria; biobricks; Caulobacter; operon assembly; Paracoccus; promoter library; vector system

Indexed keywords

KANAMYCIN; METHANOL; SUCCINIC ACID; TETRACYCLINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBON SOURCE; CLONING; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION SITE; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STOP CODON; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; BACTERIUM TRANSFORMATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHYLOBACTERIUM;

AGROBACTERIUM; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; CAULOBACTER; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; PARACOCCUS (BACTERIUM);

GENETIC VECTORS; METHYLOBACTERIUM; OPERON; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 84928136409     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sb500221v     Document Type: Article

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