FixJ-regulated genes evolved through promoter duplication in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 2335-2345

  Ferrières, Lionel ^a,b   Francez Charlot, Anne ^a,c   Gouzy, Jérôme ^a   Rouillé, Stéphane ^a   Kahn, Daniel ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c UPS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN FIXJ; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPLICON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 4344669293     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27081-0     Document Type: Article

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