Sensitive detection of bacterial transcription initiation sites and differentiation from RNA processing sites in the pheromone-induced plasmid transfer system of Enterococcus faecalis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 15, 1996, Pages 7794-7799

  Bensing, Barbara A ^a   Meyer, Barbara J ^a,b   Dunny, Gary M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES ARMY MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDE; PHEROMONE; RNA LIGASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHEROMONES; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029845782     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.15.7794     Document Type: Article

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