Constitutive expression of a transcription termination factor by a repressed prophage: Promoters for transcribing the phage HK022 nun gene

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 456-462

  King, Rodney A ^b,c   Madsen, Peter L ^a,b   Weisberg, Robert A ^b  

^a CARLSBERG LABORATORY   (Denmark)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHAGE; RNA ANALYSIS;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LYSOGENY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, VIRAL; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0033989003     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.2.456-462.2000     Document Type: Article

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