Hierarchical and co-operative binding of OmpR to a fusion construct containing the ompC and ompF upstream regulatory sequences of Escherichia coli

Genes to Cells

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 777-788

  Bergstrom, Lisa C ^a   Qin, Ling ^a   Harlocker, Susan L ^a   Egger, Linda A ^a   Inouye, Masayori ^a  

^a RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1,10 PHENANTHROLINE; OLIGOMER; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENSITOMETRY; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; NONHUMAN; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; STOICHIOMETRY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032458848     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1998.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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