Post-transcriptional regulation of the Bacillus subtilis pst operon encoding a phosphate-specific ABC transporter

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 2619-2628

  Allenby, Nicholas E E ^a   O'Connor, Nicola ^a   Prágai, Zoltán ^a,c   Carter, Noel M ^a   Miethke, Marcus ^b   Engelmann, Susanne ^b   Hecker, Michael ^b   Wipat, Anil ^a   Ward, Alan C ^a   Harwood, Colin R ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c DSM NUTRITIONAL PRODUCTS LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; DNA; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEIC ACID; PHOSPHATE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORTER; TEICHOIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 4444306185     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27126-0     Document Type: Article

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