Differential turnover of the multiple processed transcripts of the Escherichia coli focA-pflB operon

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2197-2205

  Sawerst, R Gary ^a,b  

^a JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; FOCA PROTEIN; FORMATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FORMIC ACID; LYASE; PYRUVIC ACID; RIBONUCLEASE; RIBONUCLEASE E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOACCUMULATION; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; HALF LIFE TIME; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNTRANSLATED REGION; WILD TYPE;

ENDORIBONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HALF-LIFE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; OPERON; RNA, MESSENGER;

ARCA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33747100543     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28951-0     Document Type: Article

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