Characterization of the initiator tRNA gene locus and identification of a strong promoter from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 3591-3598

  Vasanthakrishna, M ^a   Vinay Kumar, N ^a   Varshney, U ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Initiator rRNA; IS6110; Mycobacteria; Promoter; Repeats

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CYTIDINE; TRANSFER RNA; URACIL;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0030717647     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-11-3591     Document Type: Article

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