The highly thermostable arginine repressor of Bacillus stearothermophilus: Gene cloning and repressor-operator interactions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 385-398

  Dion, Michel ^a   Charlier, Daniel ^b,c   Wang, Haifeng ^c,d   Gigot, Daniel ^e   Savchenko, Alexey ^a   Hallet, Jean Noël ^a   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^b,c,d   Sakanyan, Vehary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

^b Institut de Recherches du CERIA   (Belgium)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; THERMOSTABILITY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0030791466     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.4781845.x     Document Type: Article

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