Regulation of the inducible acetamidase gene of Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2267-2276

  Parish, Tanya ^a,c   Mahenthiralingam, Eshwar ^b   Draper, Philip ^a   Davis, Elaine O ^a   Colston, M Joseph ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acetamidase; Gene expression; Inducible gene; Mycobacterium smegmatis

Indexed keywords

ACETAMIDE; AMIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; SUCCINIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CISTRON; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHUTTLE VECTOR;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 0030806372     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-7-2267     Document Type: Article

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