Mechanisms of gene expression controlled by pressure in deep-sea microorganisms

Extremophiles

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 149-154

  Nakasone, Kaoru ^a   Ikegami, Akihiko ^b   Kato, Chiaki ^a   Usami, Ron ^b   Horikoshi, Koki ^a  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barophilic bacteria; Deep sea bacterium; Electrophoretic mobility shift assay (EMSA); Gene expression; Pressure regulated operon; Trans acting factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENETICS; CLONED GENE; DNA PROBE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCING; OPERON; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE FACULTATIVELY ANAEROBIC RODS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; OPERON; PRESSURE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA SP.;

EID: 0032143799     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007920050054     Document Type: Review

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