Expression and control of an operon from an intracellular symbiont which is homologous to the groE operon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 2300-2304

  Sato, Shigeharu ^a   Ishikawa, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

APHIDIDAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031004835     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.7.2300-2304.1997     Document Type: Article

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