Differences in Genetic and Transcriptional Organization of the glpTQ Operons between Haemophilus influenzae Type b and Nontypeable Strains

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 7285-7290

  Song, Xin Ming ^a   Janson, Håkan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CYTOSINE; DNA FRAGMENT; GUANIDINE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLPTQ GENE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SEROTYPE B; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345529060     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.24.7285-7290.2003     Document Type: Article

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