Identification of additional genes belonging to the LexA regulon in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1560-1572

  Fernández De Henestrosa, Antonio R ^a   Ogi, Tomoo ^b   Aoyagi, Sayura ^c   Chafin, David ^c   Hayes, Jeffrey J ^c   Ohmori, Haruo ^b   Woodgate, Roger ^a  

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

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; NUCLEASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULON; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0038401982     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01826.x     Document Type: Article

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