The low level expression of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) mRNA in Escherichia coli is not dependent on either Shine-Dalgarno or the downstream boxes in the CAT gene

Microbiological Research

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 173-178

  Odjakova, M ^a   Golshani, A ^b   Ivanov, G ^c   Abou Haidar, M ^b   Ivanov, I ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^d INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase; Downstream box(es); Leaderless mRNA; Shine Dalgarno sequence; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL RNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; RIBOSOMAL RNA; RNA STRUCTURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FELIS CATUS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032142818     PISSN: 09445013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0944-5013(98)80037-2     Document Type: Article

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