The role of the omega subunit of RNA polymerase in expression of the relA gene in Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 51-55

  Chatterji, Dipankar ^a   Ogawa, Yoshito ^b   Shimada, Tomohiro ^c   Ishihama, Akira ^b,c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NIPPON INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c HOSEI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ppGpp; Promoter; relA; RNA polymerase; rpoZ; Stringent control

Indexed keywords

DNA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RELA;

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RPOZ GENE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LIGASES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846120515     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2006.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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