Multiple cis-acting sites positively regulate Escherichia coil nrd expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1315-1322

  Jacobson, Blake A ^a   Fuchs, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE NRD; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; SEQUENCE DELETION; THYMINE;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031799629     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00897.x     Document Type: Article

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