Analysis of the shut-off of ribosomal RNA promoters in Escherichia coli upon entering the stationary phase of growth

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-76

  Aviv, Michal ^a   Giladi, Hilla ^a   Oppenheim, Amos B ^a   Glaser, Gad ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; fis; HNS; ppGpp; Primer extension; rpoS; rRNA; Transcriptional control

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SYNTHESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029998455     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00163-2     Document Type: Article

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