Dissection of the transcription machinery for housekeeping genes of Bradyrhizobium japonicum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 364-369

  Beck, Christoph ^a   Marty, Roger ^a   Kläusli, Sonja ^a   Hennecke, Hauke ^a   Göttfert, Michael ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; DNA TEMPLATE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0031014708     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.2.364-369.1997     Document Type: Article

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