Assessing and characterising the repertoire of constitutive promoter elements in soil metagenomic libraries in Escherichia coli
C. A. Westmann, L. d. F. Alves, R. Silva-Rocha, M.-E. Guazzaroni
The paper develops a framework to assess promoter elements in soil metagenomic libraries using fluorescence assays and computational methods, finding ~1% of promoters are accessible in Escherichia coli.
bioRxiv · Oct 30, 2017Microbiology