Transcriptional pausing in the Bacillus subtilis pyr operon in vitro: A role in transcriptional attenuation?

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4764-4771

  Zhang, Hesheng ^a   Switzer, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN NUSA; PROTEIN PYR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE PHOSPHATE; URIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA TEMPLATE; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PYR GENE; SPECIES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PENTOSYLTRANSFERASES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0042060984     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.16.4764-4771.2003     Document Type: Article

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