The pathogen Mycobacterium marinum, a faster growing close relative of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, has a single rRNA operon per genome

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 281-288

  Helguera Repetto, Cecilia ^a   Cox, Robert A ^b   Muñoz Sànchez, José L ^a   Gonzalez Y Merchand, Jorge A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium marinum; rRNA operon; Transcription start point

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GROWTH RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RRNA OPERON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 2942621923     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.04.046     Document Type: Article

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