Transcriptional organization and regulation of a polycistronic cold shock operon in Sinorhizobium meliloti RM1021 encoding homologs of the Escherichia coli major cold shock gene cspA and ribosomal protein gene rpsU

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 392-400

  O'Connell, Kevin P ^a,c   Thomashow, Michael F ^a,b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Univ of Maryland School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0033988788     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.66.1.392-400.2000     Document Type: Article

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