Mycobacterium tuberculosis sigF is part of a gene cluster with similarities to the Bacillus subtilis sigF and sigB operons

Tubercle and Lung Disease

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-12

  DeMaio, J ^a,b,d   Zhang, Y ^a   Ko, C ^a   Bishai, W R ^a,b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Infectious Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; PLASMID VECTOR; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; SIGMA FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LETHALITY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS;

EID: 0031473982     PISSN: 09628479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-8479(97)90010-1     Document Type: Article

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