Expression of the major porin gene mspA is regulated in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 958-967

  Hillmann, Dietmar ^a,b   Eschenbacher, Iris ^b,c   Thiel, Anja ^b   Niederweis, Michael ^a,b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Cenas AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CARBON; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; NUCLEASE S1; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; PRIMER DNA; PROTEIN MSPA; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACIDITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPISOME; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC STABILITY; HALF LIFE TIME; LACZ GENE; MSPA GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

5' FLANKING REGION; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; ETHANOL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PORINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 33846592307     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01474-06     Document Type: Article

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