The synchrony phenotype persists after elimination of multiple GATC sites from the dnaA promoter of Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4573-4576

  Wilkinson II, Terry G ^a,d   Kedar, G C ^a   Lee, Chi ^a   Guzmán, Elena C ^b   Smith, Douglas W ^c   Zyskind, Judith W ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c SECTION OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United States)

^d Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Galveston   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CHRONOLOGY; DNA METHYLATION; DNAA GENE; GATC SITE; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SYNCHRONY PHENOTYPE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TIME FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33744989019     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00089-06     Document Type: Article

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