The nucleotide concentration determines the specificity of in vitro transcription activation by the σ54-dependent activator FhlA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 199-203

  Hopper, Sylvia ^a   Korsa, Ingrid ^a   Böck, August ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Inst of Genetics and Microbiology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL DNA; CYTIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASES; FORMIC ACIDS; HYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NUCLEOTIDES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030026303     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.1.199-203.1996     Document Type: Article

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