In-frame overlapping genes: The challenges for regulating gene expression

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1158-1172

  Yu, Jae Sung ^a,b   Kokoska, Robert J ^a,c   Khemici, Vanessa ^a   Steege, Deborah A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENE ORDER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; RNA, VIRAL; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE F1;

EID: 33846570431     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05572.x     Document Type: Article

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