The virF promoter in Shigella: More than just a curved DNA stretch

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 523-537

  Prosseda, Gianni ^a   Falconi, Maurizio ^b   Giangrossi, Mara ^b   Gualerzi, Claudio O ^b   Micheli, Gioacchino ^a   Colonna, Bianca ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; VIF PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHIGELLA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SHIGELLA;

NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA;

EID: 0942268740     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03848.x     Document Type: Article

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