Intracistronic transcription termination in polysialyltransferase gene (siaD) affects phase variation in Neisseria meningitidis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 119-127

  Lavitola, Alfredo ^a   Buccl, Cecilia ^a   Salvatore, Paola ^a,b   Maresca, Gabriella ^a   Bruni, Carmelo B ^a   Alifano, Pietro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOZAMYCIN; DEOXYCYTIDINE; MESSENGER RNA; POLYDEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; RHO FACTOR; SIALYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CISTRON; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUSION; MICROCAPSULE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; OPERON; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; RHO FACTOR; SIALYLTRANSFERASES; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033014130     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01454.x     Document Type: Article

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