Transcriptional polarity in rRNA operons of Escherichia coli nusA and nusB mutant strains

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1632-1638

  Quan, Selwyn ^a   Zhang, Ning ^a   French, Sarah ^b   Squires, Catherine L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S; RNA 5S; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NUSA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NUSB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULE; NONHUMAN; NUSA GENE; NUSB GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUCROSE GRADIENT;

CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RIBOSOMES; RRNA OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14244264774     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.5.1632-1638.2005     Document Type: Article

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