Synthesis of FinP RNA by plasmids F and pSLT is regulated by DNA adenine methylation

Genetics

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-45

  Torreblanca, Joaquin ^a   Marqués, Silvia ^a   Casadesus, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA METHYLATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSFER; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADENINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA METHYLATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; F FACTOR; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL CHROMOSOME MAPPING; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, ANTISENSE; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032924459     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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