The lac operon of Lactobacillus casei contains lacT, a gene coding for a protein of the BglG family of transcriptional antiterminators

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1555-1562

  Alpert, Carl Alfred ^a   Siebers, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOSE OPERON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ERWINIA; ERWINIA CHRYSANTHEMI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS CASEI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0031058131     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.5.1555-1562.1997     Document Type: Article

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