The glutamic acid residue at amino acid 261 of the α subunit is a determinant of the intrinsic efficiency of RNA polymerase at the metE core promoter in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 6810-6816

  Jafri, Samina ^a,b   Urbanowski, Mark L ^a   Stauffer, George V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029808908     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.23.6810-6816.1996     Document Type: Article

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