Efficiency of transcription from promoter sequence variants in Lactobacillus is both strain and context dependent

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 20, 1999, Pages 6569-6572

  McCracken, Andrea ^a,b   Timms, Peter ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS ACIDOPHILUS; LACTOBACILLUS FERMENTUM; LACTOBACILLUS RHAMNOSUS; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032743093     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.20.6569-6572.1999     Document Type: Article

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