Structure of a genome region of the Lactobacillus gasseri temperate phage φadh covering a repressor gene and cognate promoters

Gene

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-70

  Engel, Günther ^a   Altermann, Eric ^a   Klein, Jürgen R ^a   Henrich, Bernhard ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage adh; DNA sequence; Genome organization; Immunity region; Regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENE STRUCTURE; IMMUNITY; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS BACTERIOPHAGE PHI ADH; LACTOBACILLUS GASSERI; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; STREPTOCOCCUS; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032571502     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00012-2     Document Type: Article

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