Transcriptional analysis of the groESL operon of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Gene

Volumn 189, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 107-112

  Tauschek, Marija ^a   Hamilton, Christopher W ^a   Hall, Leslie A ^a   Chomvarin, Chariya ^a,b   Fyfe, Janet A M ^a   Davies, John K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Chaperone; Gonococcus; Heat shock; RpoH; Stress; Transcriptional terminator

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE INDUCTION; HEAT SHOCK; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0030942961     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00842-6     Document Type: Article

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