An Engineered B. subtilis Inducible Promoter System with over 10 000-Fold Dynamic Range

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2019, Pages 1673-1678

  Castillo Hair, Sebastian M ^a   Fujita, Masaya ^b   Igoshin, Oleg A ^a,c   Tabor, Jeffrey J ^a,c  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b University of Houston   (United States)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; inducible promoter system; IPTG; protein expression; T7 RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; T7 RNA POLYMERASE; TISSUE FACTOR PATHWAY INHIBITOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIOPHAGE T7 RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; VIRAL PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOENGINEERING; CODON; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETER); CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; REPORTER GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 85069489878     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.8b00469     Document Type: Article

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