A carboxy-terminal 16-amino-acid region of σ38 of Escherichia coli is important for transcription under high-salt conditions and sigma activities in vivo

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 4628-4631

  Ohnuma, Mio ^a   Fujita, Nobuyuki ^b   Ishihama, Akira ^b   Tanaka, Kan ^a   Takahashi, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; POTASSIUM; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033898490     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.16.4628-4631.2000     Document Type: Article

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