An IS4 insertion at the glnA control region of Escherichia coli creates a new promoter by providing the -35 region of its 3'-end

Plasmid

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 41-47

  Camarena, L ^a   Poggio, S ^a   Campos, A ^a,b   Bastarrachea, F ^a   Osorio, A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031934323     PISSN: 0147619X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/plas.1997.1318     Document Type: Article

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