Effect of Genome Position on Heterologous Gene Expression in Bacillus subtilis: An Unbiased Analysis

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 942-947

  Sauer, Christopher ^a,b   Syvertsson, Simon ^a   Bohorquez, Laura C ^c   Cruz, Rita ^a,b   Harwood, Colin R ^a   Van Rij, Tjeerd ^b   Hamoen, Leendert W ^a,c  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DSM BIOTECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; gene expression; genome location; GFP; LacZ; transposon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSPOSON; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84987909959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.6b00065     Document Type: Article

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