Emergency derepression: Stringency allows RNA polymerase to override negative control by an active repressor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 435-443

  Kvint, Kristian ^a   Hosbond, Carsten ^b   Farewell, Anne ^a   Nybroe, Ole ^b   Nyström, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRESSOR GENE; STRESS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; COENZYME A LIGASES; CYCLIC AMP; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0033955874     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01714.x     Document Type: Article

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