Cascade of extracytoplasmic function sigma factors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Identification of a σJ-dependent promoter upstream of sigI

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 280, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 120-126

  Homerova, Dagmar ^a   Halgasova, Lenka ^a   Kormanec, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Bacterial virulence; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Pathogenesis; Promoter; RNA polymerase; Sigma factor

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 38849201790     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.01054.x     Document Type: Article

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