Analysis of the fusA2 locus encoding EFG2 in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Tuberculosis

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 453-464

  Seshadri, Anuradha ^a   Samhita, Laasya ^a   Gaur, Rahul ^a   Malshetty, Vidyasagar ^a   Varshney, Umesh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Competitive fitness; EFG2; GTPase; Mycobacterium smegmatis

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR G; ELONGATION FACTOR G2; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSA2 GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE LOCUS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMUS THERMOPHILUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR G; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 71549115122     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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