Singular structures and operon organizations of essential two-component systems in species of Streptococcus

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3096-3098

  Ng, Wai Leung ^a   Winkler, Malcolm E ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOPLASM; DNA BINDING; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPERON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 6444243998     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27550-0     Document Type: Note

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