Regulation of tryptophan operon expression in the archaeon Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 6419-6429

  Xie, Yunwei ^a,b   Reeve, John N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TATA BINDING PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CODON; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; METHANOBACTERIUM THERMOAUTOTROPHICUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EURYARCHAEOTA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; TRYPTOPHAN;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; METHANOTHERMOBACTER THERMAUTOTROPHICUS;

EID: 24944442512     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.18.6419-6429.2005     Document Type: Article

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