Inadequate inhibition of host RNA polymerase restricts T7 bacteriophage growth on hosts overexpressing udk

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 448-457

  Qimron, Udi ^a   Kulczyk, Arkadiusz W ^a   Hamdan, Samir M ^a   Tabor, Stanley ^a   Richardson, Charles C ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIFAMPICIN; RNA POLYMERASE; URIDINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UDK GENE; VIROGENESIS;

BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, SUPPRESSOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIFAMPIN; URIDINE KINASE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 37349072830     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06058.x     Document Type: Article

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