Use of new methods for construction of tightly regulated arabinose and rhamnose promoter fusions in studies of the Escherichia coli phosphate regulon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1277-1286

  Haldimann, Andreas ^a   Daniels, Larry L ^a,b   Wanner, Barry L ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; HISTIDINE SENSOR KINASE PHOR; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN KINASE; RHAMNOSE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN PHOB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031884183     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.5.1277-1286.1998     Document Type: Article

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