The activity of a single-stranded promoter of plasmid Collb-P9 depends on its secondary structure

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 405-417

  Nasim, M T ^a   Eperon, I C ^a   Wilkins, B M ^a   Brammar, W J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HOLOENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ARTICLE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MISMATCH REPAIR; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIOCIN PLASMIDS; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; F FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PLASMID F;

EID: 3242888381     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04114.x     Document Type: Article

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