A silent mutation in the ftsH gene of Escherichia coli that affects FtsH protein production and colicin tolerance

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 254, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 578-583

  Makino, S ^a   Qu, J N ^a   Uemori, K ^a   Ichikawa, H ^a   Ogura, T ^b   Matsuzawa, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colicin tolerance; FtsH protein; Silent mutation; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBON; COLICIN; MEMBRANE ENZYME; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYSOGENIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; RNA STRUCTURE;

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; COLICINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LEUCINE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NEOMYCIN; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030926241     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050454     Document Type: Article

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