The ftsQ1p gearbox promoter of Escherichia coli is a major sigma S- dependent promoter in the ddlB-ftsA region

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 419-430

  Ballesteros, Manuel ^a   Kusano, Shuichi ^b   Ishihama, Akira ^b   Vicente, Miguel ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031784284     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01077.x     Document Type: Article

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