Reevaluation of the promoter structure of the class 3 flagellar operons of Escherichia coli and Salmonella

Genes and Genetic Systems

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 113-116

  Ide, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Ikebe, Tadayoshi ^b   Kutsukake, Kazuhiro ^b  

^a SHIONOGI AND CO LTD   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SALMONELLA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033149857     PISSN: 13417568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1266/ggs.74.113     Document Type: Article

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