Primary structure requirements for in vivo activity and bidirectional function of the transcription terminator shared by the oppositely oriented skc/rel-orf1 genes of Streptococcus equisimilis H46A

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 611-618

  Steiner, K ^a   Malke, H ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bidirectional transcription terminator; Mutational analysis; rel orf1 genes; skc gene; Streptococcus equisimilis H46A

Indexed keywords

OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; STREPTOKINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOKINASE; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS DYSGALACTIAE SUBSP. EQUISIMILIS;

EID: 0030848871     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050535     Document Type: Article

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