Cloning and characterization in Escherichia coli of the gene encoding the principal sigma factor of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilus

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 179-186

  Nishiyama, Makoto ^a   Kobashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Tanaka, Kan ^a   Takahashi, Hideo ^a   Tanokura, Masaru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

RNA polymerase; Sigma factor; Thermostable protein; Thermus thermophilus

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE KINASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA FRAGMENT; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC MANIPULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGMA FACTOR; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; THERMUS; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

EID: 0032966765     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00039-7     Document Type: Article

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