Transcriptional analysis of the Escherichia coli mreBCD genes responsible for morphogenesis and chromosome segregation

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 70, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2712-2719

  Wachi, Masaaki ^a   Osaka, Kazuyoshi ^a   Kohama, Tomoko ^a   Sasaki, Kumi ^a   Ohtsu, Iwao ^a   Iwai, Noritaka ^a   Takada, Ayako ^a   Nagai, Kazuo ^b  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

mreB; mreC; mreD; Operon; Transcriptional analysis

Indexed keywords

CELLS; GENES; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; RNA;

FUSION ANALYSIS; MREB; OPERON; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33751412798     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.60315     Document Type: Article

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