Genes required for assembly and function of the protein synthetic system in Chlamydia trachomatis are expressed early in elementary to reticulate body transformation

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 255, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 637-642

  Gerard H C ^a   Whittum Hudson, J A ^b   Hudson, A P ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis; Development; Gene expression; Protein synthesis; Ribosomes

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOME;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLYCINE-TRNA LIGASE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS;

EID: 0030851869     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050538     Document Type: Article

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