A tightly inducible riboswitch system in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 154-159

  Ohbayashi, Ryudo ^a,b   Akai, Hideto ^a   Yoshikawa, Hirofumi ^a,b   Hess, Wolfgang R ^c   Watanabe, Satoru ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Riboswitch; Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803; Theophylline; Translation

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; THEOPHYLLINE; RIBOSWITCH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH INHIBITION; LACI GENE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RIBOSWITCH; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS; SYNECHOCYSTIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSWITCH; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; THEOPHYLLINE;

EID: 84978863815     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.2016.02.002     Document Type: Article

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