Different structures of selected and unselected araB-lacZ fusions

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1133-1145

  Maenhaut Michel, Geneviève ^a   Blake, Catherine E ^b,d   Leach, David R F ^b   Shapiro, James A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE FUSION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIOPHAGE MU; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030934437     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3031666.x     Document Type: Article

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