Antagonistic involvement of FIS and H-NS proteins in the transcriptional control of hns expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 965-975

  Falconi, Maurizio ^a   Brandi, Anna ^a   La Teana, Anna ^a   Gualerzi, Claudio O ^a   Pon, Cynthia L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0029880342     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.436961.x     Document Type: Article

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