SigA is an essential gene in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 617-628

  Gomez, Manuel ^a   Doukhan, Laurence ^a,b   Nair, Gopalan ^a   Smith, Issar ^a  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGMA FACTOR;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0031820389     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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