Structural dissection and functional analysis of the complex promoter of the streptokinase gene from Streptococcus equisimilis H46A

Medical Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-17

  Gräfe, Susanna ^a   Ellinger, Thomas ^a   Malke, Horst ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Promoter luciferase gene fusion; skc promoter; Streptococcus equisimilis H46A; Streptokinase gene

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; NUCLEASE S1; STREPTOKINASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS EQUI; TANDEM REPEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOKINASE;

EID: 0029888893     PISSN: 03008584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004300050009     Document Type: Article

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