Subcellular partitioning of transcription factors in Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 4101-4110

  Doherty, Geoff P ^a   Meredith, Donna H ^a   Lewis, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; DNA; ELONGATION FACTOR; GREA PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUSA PROTEIN; NUSB PROTEIN; NUSE PROTEIN; NUSG PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA PRIMERS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 33744752145     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01934-05     Document Type: Article

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