Polarity in archaeal operon transcription in Thermococcus kodakaraensis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2244-2248

  Santangelo, Thomas J ^a   Čuboňová, L'ubomíra ^a   Matsumi, Rie ^b   Atomi, Haruyuki ^b   Imanaka, Tadayuki ^b   Reeve, John N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; GLYCOSIDASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYBRIDIZATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; STOP CODON; THERMOCOCCUS; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARAENSIS;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GLYCOSIDE HYDROLASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERON; THERMOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; THERMOCOCCUS KODAKARENSIS;

EID: 40449131926     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01811-07     Document Type: Article

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