Activities of constitutive promoters in Escherichia coli

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-37

  Liang, S T ^a   Bipatnath, M ^a   Xu, Y C ^a   Chen, S L ^b   Dennis, P ^c   Ehrenberg, M ^d   Bremer, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

E. coli; Lambda pL; Pbla; Promoters; Pspc

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA LACTAMASE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSLATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033543765     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.3056     Document Type: Article

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