The Bacillus BioBrick Box 2.0: Expanding the genetic toolbox for the standardized work with Bacillus subtilis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Popp, Philipp F ^a   Dotzler, Mona ^b   Radeck, Jara ^a,b   Bartels, Julia ^a,b   Mascher, Thorsten ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 85033369527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-15107-z     Document Type: Article

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