Escherichia coli rpoC397 encodes a temperature-sensitive C-terminal frameshift in the β' subunit of RNA polymerase that blocks growth of bacteriophage P2

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 6991-6993

  Christie, Gail E ^a   Cale, Sara B ^a   Isaksson, Leif A ^b   Jin, Ding Jun ^c   Xu, Ming ^c,e   Sauer, Brian ^d,f   Calendar, Richard ^d  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NANJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12;

EID: 0029830434     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.23.6991-6993.1996     Document Type: Article

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