Multiple mechanisms are used for growth rate and stringent control of leuV transcriptional initiation in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 5771-5782

  Pokholok, Dmitry K ^a,d   Redlak, Maria ^a   Turnbough Jr , Charles L ^b   Dylla, Sara ^b   Holmes, Walter M ^a,c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c ISBDD   (United States)

^d WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEPARIN; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032862322     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.18.5771-5782.1999     Document Type: Article

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