Identification of Mycobacterium paratuberculosis gene expression signals

Microbiology

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 921-928

  Bannantine, John P ^a,c   Barletta, Raúl G ^b   Thoen, Charles O ^a   Andrews Jr , Robert E ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Codon usage; Gene expression; Mycobacterium; Primer extension; Promoter

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON USAGE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DATA BASE; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0030998155     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-143-3-921     Document Type: Article

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