Promoters from Corynebacterium glutamicum: Cloning, molecular analysis and search for a consensus motif

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1297-1309

  Pátek, Miroslav ^a,b   Eikmanns, Bernhard J ^a   Pátek, Jaroslav ^a,c   Sahm, Hermann ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^c INSTITUTE OF THERMOMECHANICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Consensus sequence; Corynebacterium glutamicum; Promoter

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIOPHAGE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MAPPING; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COLI BACILLUS; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 0029883461     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-5-1297     Document Type: Article

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