Drastically decreased transcription from CII-activated promoters is responsible for impaired lysogenization of the Escherichia coli rpoA341 mutant by bacteriophage λ

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-27

  Szalewska Pałasz, Agnieszka ^a   Wȩgrzyn, Alicja ^b   Obuchowski, Michał ^a   Pawłowski, Ryszard ^c   Bielawski, Krzysztof ^a   Thomas, Mark S ^d   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bacteriophage development; CII activator; Escherichia coli; lysogenization by phage; RNA polymerase subunit; transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030588117     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00332-1     Document Type: Article

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