Mycobacterial promoters

Tubercle and Lung Disease

Volumn 78, Issue 5-6, 1997, Pages 211-223

  Mulder, M A ^a   Zappe, H ^a   Steyn, L M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; RNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM FORTUITUM; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM PARATUBERCULOSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM PHLEI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0031396383     PISSN: 09628479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-8479(97)90001-0     Document Type: Review

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