Comparative Genomic Analysis of the sigB Operon in Listeria monocytogenes and in Other Gram-Positive Bacteria

Current Microbiology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 39-46

  Ferreira, Adriana ^a   Gray, Michael ^a   Wiedmann, Martin ^a   Boor, Kathryn J ^a  

^a 413 Stocking Hall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; RSB PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE PROBE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RSB GENE; RSBS GENE; RSBT GENE; SIGB OPERON; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0842269870     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-003-4020-x     Document Type: Article

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