Transcription antitermination regulation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa amidase operon

EMBO Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 1996, Pages 5907-5916

  Wilson, Stuart A ^a,b   Wachira, Simon J M ^a,c   Norman, Richard A ^a   Pearl, Laurence H ^a   Drew, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Amidase; Antitermination; P. aeruginosa

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GEL FILTRATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOLID; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0029994193     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1996.tb00977.x     Document Type: Article

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