Effects of the Escherichia coli DNA-binding protein H-NS on rRNA synthesis in vivo

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 641-653

  Afflerbach, Henning ^a   Schröder, Oliver ^a   Wagner, Rolf ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH RATE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRESS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; COLD; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RRNA OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031970775     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00829.x     Document Type: Article

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