Heat shock inducibility of an arachaeal TATA-like promoter is controlled by adjacent sequence elements

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 541-551

  Thompson, Dorothea K ^a   Daniels, Charles J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HALOFERAX; HEAT SHOCK; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, REPORTER; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TATA BOX; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; HALOFERAX VOLCANII; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031973963     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00698.x     Document Type: Article

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