Antiterminator-dependent modulation of transcription elongation rates by NusB and NusG

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1296-1304

  Zellars, Malcolm ^a   Squires, Catherine L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; ELONGATION FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; EPISOME; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LACTOSE OPERON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSPOSASES;

EID: 0033032384     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01442.x     Document Type: Article

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