Escherichia coli can tolerate insertions of up to 16 amino acids in the RNA polymerase α subunit inter-domain linker

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression

Volumn 1678, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 47-56

  Husnain, Seyyed I ^a   Meng, Wenmao ^a,b   Busby, Stephen J W ^a,c   Thomas, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allelic replacement; Gene regulation; lacZ fusions; RNA polymerase; Transcription activation; UP element

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ISOENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE ALPHA CHAIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME SUBSTITUTION; DIPLOIDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPLOIDY; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 1842453271     PISSN: 01674781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2004.01.008     Document Type: Article

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