Regulatory mechanisms in expression of the traY-I operon of sex factor plasmid R100: Involvement of traJ and traY gene products

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 331-345

  Taki, Keiko ^a   Abo, Tatsuhiko ^a   Ohtsubo, Eiichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; F FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031864956     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00194.x     Document Type: Article

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