Expression of heterologous sigma factors enables functional screening of metagenomic and heterologous genomic libraries

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Gaida, Stefan M ^a   Sandoval, Nicholas R ^a   Nicolaou, Sergios A ^a   Chen, Yili ^a   Venkataramanan, Keerthi P ^a   Papoutsakis, Eleftherios T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GENOMICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM;

ALCOHOL; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 70; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENE; DRUG EFFECTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; METABOLISM; METAGENOME; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC TESTING; GENOMIC LIBRARY; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; METAGENOME; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84940086904     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8045     Document Type: Article

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