The Rex phenotype of altruistic cell death following infection of a λ lysogen by T4rII mutants is suppressed by plasmids expressing OOP RNA

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-42

  Hayes, Sidney ^a   Bull, Harold J ^a,b   Tulloch, Janis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage ; LIT, OOP RNAs; p(Lit),p(o) promoters; Rex exclusion; rexB expression

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CELL DEATH; LYSOGENIZATION; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROPHAGE; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, VIRAL; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0030939437     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00824-4     Document Type: Article

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