rRNA Transcription and growth rate-dependent regulation of ribosome synthesis in Escherichia coli

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue , 1996, Pages 645-677

  Gourse, Richard L ^a   Gaal, Tamas ^a   Bartlett, Michael S ^a   Appleman, J Alex ^a   Ross, Wilma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

feedback; promoter; regulation of gene expression; RNA polymerase; transcription mechanisms

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029820872     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.50.1.645     Document Type: Review

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