A 5' RNA stem-loop participates in the transcription attenuation mechanism that controls expression of the Bacillus subtilis trpEDCFBA operon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 5742-5749

  Sudershana, Subita ^a   Du, Hansen ^a,b   Mahalanabis, Madhumita ^a,c   Babitzke, Paul ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032882591     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.18.5742-5749.1999     Document Type: Article

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