Histidine operon deattenuation in dnaA mutants of Salmonella typhimurium correlates with a decrease in the gene dosage ratio between tRNA(His) and histidine biosynthetic loci

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2938-2941

  Blanc Potard, Anne Beatrice ^a,b   Figueroa Bossi, Nara ^a   Bossi, Lionello ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

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

EID: 0032929308     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.9.2938-2941.1999     Document Type: Article

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