Selective promoter recognition by chlamydial σ28 holoenzyme

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 7364-7377

  Shen, Li ^a   Feng, Xiaogeng ^a   Yuan, Yuan ^b   Luo, Xudong ^a   Hatch, Thomas P ^c   Hughes, Kelly T ^d   Liu, Jun S ^b   Zhang, You Xun ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; HOLOENZYME; HYBRID PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; FLIA GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TECHNIQUE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HOLOENZYMES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33750455510     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01014-06     Document Type: Article

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