The Bradyrhizobium japonicum rpoH1 gene encoding a σ32-like protein is part of a unique heat shock gene cluster together with groESL1 and three small heat shock genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 5337-5346

  Narberhaus, Franz ^a,b   Weiglhofer, Wolfgang ^a   Fischer, Hans Martin ^a   Hennecke, Hauke ^a  

^a LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONIN; GROESL PROTEIN, BACTERIA; HEAT SHOCK SIGMA FACTOR 32; HEAT-SHOCK SIGMA FACTOR 32; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TANDEM REPEAT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAT; HEAT SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RHIZOBIACEAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHAPERONINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; RHIZOBIACEAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029661889     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.18.5337-5346.1996     Document Type: Article

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