Functional determinants of the Escherichia coli fis promoter: Roles of - 35, -10, and transcription initiation regions in the response to stringent control and growth phase-dependent regulation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1269-1280

  Walker, Kimberly A ^a   Atkins, Carey L ^a   Osuna, Robert ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033063805     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.4.1269-1280.1999     Document Type: Article

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