Mutational analysis of the Chlamydia trachomatis dnaK promoter defines the optimal -35 promoter element

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 551-555

  Schaumburg, Chris S ^a   Tan, Ming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BASE PAIRING; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYPOTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MUTATION; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0037440007     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg150     Document Type: Review

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