Construction and development of an auto-regulatory gene expression system in Bacillus subtilis

Microbial Cell Factories

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Guan, Chengran ^a   Cui, Wenjing ^a   Cheng, Jintao ^a   Zhou, Li ^a   Guo, Junling ^a   Hu, Xu ^a   Xiao, Guoping ^b   Zhou, Zhemin ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WuxiBiortus Biosciences Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Auto inducible; Auto regulatory; Bacillus subtilis; Over production; Promoter; Protein expression system; Quorum sensing; srf operon

Indexed keywords

AMINOPEPTIDASE; GLUCOSE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PLASMID VECTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELL DENSITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROMOTER REGION; QUORUM SENSING; SRFA GENE; WILD TYPE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84959252289     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12934-015-0341-2     Document Type: Article

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