Tn7-Based Device for Calibrated Heterologous Gene Expression in Pseudomonas putida

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1341-1351

  Zobel, Sebastian ^a   Benedetti, Ilaria ^b   Eisenbach, Lara ^a   De Lorenzo, Victor ^b   Wierckx, Nick ^a   Blank, Lars M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

bicistronic design; Pseudomonas putida; synthetic biology; synthetic promoters; Tn7 transposon; translational coupler

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ENHANCEMENT; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSPOSON;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 84949828112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.5b00058     Document Type: Article

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