Cloning, nucleotide sequence and characterization of the rpoD gene encoding the primary sigma factor of Rhodobacter capsulatus

Gene

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 177-184

  Pasternak, Cécile ^a   Chen, Weizhen ^a   Heck, Claudia ^a   Klug, Gabriele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Facultative photosynthetic bacteria; lacZ fusion; Specific mutagenesis

Indexed keywords

OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGMA FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RNA TRANSLATION; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; PHOTOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0030591768     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00243-0     Document Type: Article

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