Mutational analysis of the Escherichia coli spoT gene identifies distinct but overlapping regions involved in ppGpp synthesis and degradation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1373-1384

  Gentry, Daniel R ^a   Cashel, Michael ^a  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; LIGASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PYROPHOSPHATASES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029985489     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1996.tb02480.x     Document Type: Article

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