The Mycobacterium tuberculosis mysB gene product is a functional equivalent of the Escherichia coli sigma factor, KatF

Gene

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 361-370

  Mulder, Nicola J ^a   Powles, Ros E ^a   Zappe, Harold ^a   Steyn, Lafras M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Catalase; katG; mysA; Stationary phase

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CATALASE; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; ISONIAZID; LUCIFERASES; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PEROXIDASE; PEROXIDASES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032735141     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00430-8     Document Type: Article

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