The arginine operon of Bacillus stearothermophilus: Characterization of the control region and its interaction with the heterologous B. subtilis arginine repressor

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 252, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 69-78

  Savchenko, Alexey ^a   Charlier, Daniel ^b   Dion, Michel ^a   Weigel, Pierre ^a   Hallet, Jean Noël ^a   Holtham, Carol ^c   Baumberg, Simon ^c   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^b   Sakanyan, Vehary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arginine repressor; Bacillus stearothermophilus argC gene sequence; Gene regulation; Operator

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0029855689     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02173206     Document Type: Article

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