Identification of novel intergenic repetitive units in a mycobacterial two-component system operon

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 991-1003

  Supply, Philip ^a   Magdalena, Juana ^a   Himpens, Sabine ^a   Locht, Camille ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030691063     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.6361999.x     Document Type: Article

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