The acid-inducible asr gene in Escherichia coli: Transcriptional control by the phoBR operon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2084-2093

  Sužiedeliene, Edita ^a,b   Sužiedelis, Kȩstutis ^a,b   Garbenčiute, Vaida ^b   Normark, Staffan ^a,c  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PROTEIN PHOB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RNA PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

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

EID: 0344428134     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.7.2084-2093.1999     Document Type: Article

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