Effect of altered spacing between uhpT promoter elements on transcription activation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 4430-4436

  Chen, Qing ^a   Kadner, Robert J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYDROXYL RADICAL; RNA POLYMERASE; SUGAR PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SUGAR PHOSPHATES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033874089     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.16.4430-4436.2000     Document Type: Article

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