The transcriptional terminator sequences downstream of the covR gene terminate covR/S operon transcription to generate covR monocistronic transcripts in Streptococcus pyogenes

Gene

Volumn 427, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 99-103

  Chiang Ni, Chuan ^a   Tsou, Chih Cheng ^a   Lin, Yee Shin ^a   Chuang, Woei Jer ^a   Lin, Ming T ^b   Liu, Ching Chuan ^c   Wu, Jiunn Jong ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

RNA transcription; Transcriptional terminators; Two component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVR GENE; COVS GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TERMINATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 55149094071     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2008.08.025     Document Type: Article

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