hrcA, the first gene of the Bacillus subtilis dnaK operon encodes a negative regulator of class I heat shock genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1088-1093

  Schulz, Anja ^a   Schumann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; DELETION MUTANT; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC REGULATION; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; NULL CELL; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0030028240     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.4.1088-1093.1996     Document Type: Article

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