Advanced strategies for food-grade protein production: A new E. coli/lactic acid bacteria shuttle vector for improved cloning and food-grade expression

Microorganisms

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2019, Pages

  Tagliavia, Marcello ^a,b   Nicosia, Aldo ^a,b  

^a Capo Granitola   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Advanced food grade cloning: flippase (FLP) recombinase; Food grade expression vectors; Generally recognized as safe (GRAS) microorganisms; Lactic acid bacteria (LAB); Resistance cassette removal; Shuttle expression vectors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85074261563     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20762607     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms7050116     Document Type: Article

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