Molecular analysis of the dnaK locus of Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni

Gene

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-29

  Ballard, Susan A ^a   Go, Margareta ^a   Segers, Ruud P A M ^b,c   Adler, Ben ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c INTERVET INTERNATIONAL BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CIRCE; Heat shock proteins; Spirochete

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPIROCHETE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS SEROVAR COPENHAGENI; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 0032541319     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00329-1     Document Type: Article

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