Identification of sulfate starvation-regulated genes in Escherichia coli: A gene cluster involved in the utilization of taurine as a sulfur source

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 5438-5446

  Van der Ploeg, Jan R ^a   Weiss, Martina A ^a   Saller, Elisabeth ^a   Nashimoto, Hiroko ^b   Saito, Noriko ^b   Kertesz, Michael A ^a   Leisinger, Thomas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR; TAURINE;

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULON; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029815280     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.18.5438-5446.1996     Document Type: Article

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