A regulatory RNA (PrrB RNA) modulates expression of secondary metabolite genes in pseudomonas fluorescens F113

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 3913-3919

  Aarons, Simon ^a,b   Abbas, Abdelhamid ^a   Adams, Claire ^a   Fenton, Anne ^a   O'Gara, Fergal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; EXOPEPTIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PHLOROGLUCINOL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0033932017     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.14.3913-3919.2000     Document Type: Article

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