Involvement of differential efficiency of transcription by Eσ(s) and Eσ70 RNA polymerase holoenzymes in growth phase regulation of the Escherichia coli osmE promoter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 845-853

  Bordes, Patricia ^a   Repoila, Francis ^a   Kolb, Annie ^b   Gutierrez, Claude ^a  

^a UPR 9007 CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH REGULATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033975447     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01758.x     Document Type: Article

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