Cloning and characterization of the gene encoding the primary σ-factor of Campylobacter jejuni

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 97-103

  Wösten, Marc M S M ^a   Boeve, Miranda ^a   Gaastra, Wim ^a   Van der Zeijst, Bernard A M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

70; Campylobacter jejuni; rpoD

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; POLYPEPTIDE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0032080497     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00107-4     Document Type: Article

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