Regulation of intrinsic terminator by translation in Escherichia coli: Transcription termination at a distance downstream

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 87-97

  Abe, Hiroyuki ^a   Abo, Tatsuhiko ^a   Aiba, Hiroji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032903811     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00246.x     Document Type: Article

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