Regulation of two highly similar genes, omcB and omcC, in a 10 kb chromosomal duplication in Geobacter sulfurreducens

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1761-1767

  Leang, Ching ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; PROTEIN OMCB; PROTEIN OMCC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 21144442508     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27870-0     Document Type: Article

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