Retraction to: Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

DOI 10.1007/s00253-004-1814-0

Upon investigation carried out according to the Committee on Publication Ethics guidelines, it has been found that the authors have duplicated substantial parts from the following article:

Strategies for Achieving High-Level Expression of Genes in Escherichia coli

Savvas C. Makrides

MICROBIOLOGICAL REVIEWS, Sept. 1996, p. 512–538 Vol. 60, No. 3

Copyright ©1996, American Society for Microbiology

In particular the authors duplicated

(1) Fig. 1 (incl. legend)

(2) The subchapter “Translational regulation”

(3) The subchapter “mRNA stability”

As it was not possible to contact the authors the retraction had to be executed without their approval.