Cell division genes ftsQAZ in escherichia coli require distant cis- acting signals upstream of ddlB for full expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 305-315

  Flärdh, Klas ^a,b   Palacios, Pilar ^a   Vicente, Miguel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL CELL WALL; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIOPHAGE; CELL DIVISION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031724116     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01064.x     Document Type: Article

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