Structure and function in Escherichia coli of plasmids containing pyrimidine/purine-biased stretch originated from the 5'-flanking region of the Basidiomycete ras gene

Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 696-702

  Yamazaki, Takashi ^a   Hasebe, Takeshi ^a   Shouguchi, Junko ^a   Amano, Hitoshi ^a   Kajiwara, Susumu ^a   Shishido, Kazuo ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT motif; pBR322; Regulation of gene expression; S1 sensitive sites; Superhelical density

Indexed keywords

BETA LACTAMASE; PLASMID DNA; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PLASMID; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; START CODON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030724374     PISSN: 0021924X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021811     Document Type: Article

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