Promoter element spacing controls basal expression and light inducibility of the cyanobacterial secA gene

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1113-1122

  Mazouni, K ^a   Bulteau, S ^a   Cassier Chauvat, C ^a   Chauvat, F ^a  

^a CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIFAMPIN; RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; SYNECHOCYSTIS;

EID: 0031770758     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01145.x     Document Type: Article

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