Experimental analysis of Helicobacter pylori transcriptional terminators suggests this microbe uses both intrinsic and factor-dependent termination

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 155-170

  Castillo, Andrea R ^a   Arevalo, Sonia S ^a   Woodruff, Andrew J ^a   Ottemann, Karen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESOLVASE; RHO KINASE; SPACER DNA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENOMICS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MICROORGANISM; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHO GENE; TNPR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHO FACTOR; RNA, BACTERIAL; SELECTION (GENETICS); TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HELICOBACTER PYLORI;

EID: 36849070887     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06033.x     Document Type: Article

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