A study of the mycobacterial transcriptional apparatus: Identification of novel features in promoter elements

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 16, 1996, Pages 4847-4853

  Bashyam, Murali D ^a   Kaushal, Deepak ^a   Dasgupta, Sujoy K ^a,b   Tyagi, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOMYCES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES AUREOFACIENS;

EID: 0029747225     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.16.4847-4853.1996     Document Type: Article

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