Organization of a partial S10 operon and its transcriptional analysis in Flavobacterium hibernum strain W22

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-45

  Chen, Shicheng ^a   Bagdasarian, Michael ^a   Kaufman, Michael G ^b   Walker, Edward D ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Flavobacterium hibernum; Ribosomal protein; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DNA FLANKING REGION; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RPLB GENE; RPLC GENE; RPLD GENE; RPSJ GENE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ORDER; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

FLAVOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLAVOBACTERIUM HIBERNUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 33846074856     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00543.x     Document Type: Article

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