Replicon-specific regulation of small heat shock genes in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 6824-6829

  Balsiger, Sylvia ^a   Ragaz, Curdin ^a   Baron, Christian ^b   Narberhaus, Franz ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HEAT SHOCK GENE; HSPC GENE; HSPL GENE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REPLICON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPLICON; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4944224814     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.20.6824-6829.2004     Document Type: Article

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