The UP element is necessary but not sufficient for growth rate-dependent control of the Escherichia coli guaB promoter

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2450-2457

  Husnain, Seyyed I ^a   Thomas, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GUANOSINE PHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN GUAA; PROTEIN GUAB; RNA POLYMERASE; TRYPTOPHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOSYNTHESIS; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TERMINAL SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMP DEHYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 41549099248     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01732-07     Document Type: Article

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