Transcription-repair coupling factor is involved in carbon catabolite repression of the Bacillus subtilis hut and gnt operons

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1031-1038

  Zalieckas, Jill M ^a   Wray Jr , Lewis V ^a   Ferson, Amy E ^a   Fisher, Susan H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALPHA-AMYLASE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HISTIDINE; HISTIDINE AMMONIA-LYASE; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031779321     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00751.x     Document Type: Article

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