Molecular and functional analysis of the Rickettsia typhi groESL operon

Gene

Volumn 298, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 41-48

  Radulovic, Suzana ^a   Rahman, M Sayeedur ^a   Beier, Magda S ^a   Azad, Abdu F ^a  

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

Author keywords

GroESL operon; Heat shock protein; Molecular chaperones

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TYPHUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GROEL PROTEIN; GROES PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; RICKETTSIA TYPHI; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VERO CELLS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA TYPHI;

EID: 0037130938     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(02)00922-8     Document Type: Article

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