The extended promoters for two outer membrane lipoprotein genes of Borrelia spp. uniquely include a T-rich region

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-51

  Sohaskey, Charles D ^a,b   Zückert, Wolfram R ^a   Barbour, Alan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA LONG BEACH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL VACCINES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CHLORAMPHENICOL O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYMIDINE;

EID: 0345643491     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01443.x     Document Type: Article

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