Localization of OccR-activated and TraR-activated promoters that express two ABC-type permeases and the traR gene of Ti plasmid pTiR10

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1199-1210

  Fuqua, Clay ^a   Winans, Stephen C ^b  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; OCTOPINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PERMEASE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALLELES; ARGININE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0029956177     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02640.x     Document Type: Article

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