Impaired lysogenisation of the Echerichia coli rpoA341 mutant by bacteriophage λ is due to the inability of CII to act as a transcriptional activator

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 304-311

  Obuchowski, M ^a   Giladi, H ^b   Koby, S ^b   Szalewska Palasz A ^a   Wegrzyn A ^a   Oppenheim, A B ^b   Thomas, M S ^c   Wegrzyn G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CII activator; Phage development; Phage promoters; Positive control of transcription; RNA polymerase subunit

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; CII PROTEIN, BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MUTATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0030612709     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050420     Document Type: Article

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