Activation of Helicobacter pylori ureA promoter by a hybrid Escherichia coli-H. pylori rpoD gene in E. coli

Gene

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 351-359

  Shirai, Mutsunori ^a   Fujinaga, Ryutaro ^a   Akada, Junko K ^a   Nakazawa, Teruko ^a  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

H. pylori; Promoter; rpoD; Transcriptional start point; Urease

Indexed keywords

UREASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UREASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032757429     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00389-3     Document Type: Article

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