Isolation and properties of enhancer-bypass mutants of sigma 54

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 987-995

  Syed, Adeela ^a   Gralla, Jay D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENHANCER REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031028731     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.2851651.x     Document Type: Article

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