Kinetic properties of rrn promoters in Escherichia coli

Biochimie

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 981-996

  Zhang, X ^b   Dennis, P ^c   Ehrenberg, M ^a   Bremer, H ^b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

E. coli; Fis; ppGpp; Promoters; rrn

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL KINETICS; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; MICHAELIS MENTEN KINETICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RIBOSOME; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; KINETICS; MODELS, GENETIC; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RIBOSOMES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036818941     PISSN: 03009084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9084(02)00010-X     Document Type: Article

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