The gene encoding mycobacterial DNA-binding protein I (MDPI) transformed rapidly growing bacteria to slowly growing bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 297-301

  Matsumoto, Sohkichi ^a   Furugen, Makoto ^a   Yukitake, Hideharu ^a   Yamada, Takeshi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA binding protein; Dormancy; Growth; Mycobacterium; Transcription; Translation

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MYCOBACTERIAL DNA BINDING PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; MACROMOLECULE; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA TRANSLATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS BCG; MYCOBACTERIUM LEPRAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 0033988215     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00606-0     Document Type: Article

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