Identification and characterization of a stress-responsive promoter in the macromolecular synthesis operon of Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 377-388

  Liao, Chao Tsai ^a   Wen, Yu Der ^a   Wang, Wen Horng ^a   Chang, Ban Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; HEAT; MACROMOLECULE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE MUTANT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ETHANOL; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033037916     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01480.x     Document Type: Article

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