Isolation of RNA polymerase from Clostridium difficile and characterization of glutamate dehydrogenase and rRNA gene promoters in vitro and in vivo

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 96-102

  Mani, Nagraj ^a,c   Dupuy, Bruno ^b   Sonenshein, Abraham L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DIARRHEA; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; EVALUATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA GENE;

CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33644905903     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.188.1.96-102.2006     Document Type: Article

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