Mycobacterium tuberculosis groE promoter controls the expression of the bicistronic groESL1 operon and shows differential regulation under stress conditions

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 292, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-49

  Aravindhan, Vivekanandan ^a   Christy, Aparna J ^a   Roy, Sougata ^b   Ajitkumar, Parthasarathy ^b   Narayanan, Paranji R ^a   Narayanan, Sujatha ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

GroEL; GroES; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Promoter; Transcription and operon

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GROESL1 GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHAPERONINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 59349100734     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2008.01465.x     Document Type: Article

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