The actinomycete Thermobispora bispora contains two distinct types of transcriptionally active 16S rRNA genes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3270-3276

  Wang, Yue ^a   Zhang, Zhenshui ^a   Ramanan, Narendrakumar ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BISPORA; THERMOBISPORA BISPORA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0030977047     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.10.3270-3276.1997     Document Type: Article

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