Enhanced expression of recX in Mycobacterium tuberculosis owing to a promoter internal to recA

Tuberculosis

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-135

  Forse, Lorna N ^a   Houghton, Joanna ^a   Davis, Elaine O ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intragenic promoter; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; RecX

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; LEXA PROTEIN; RECA PROTEIN; RECX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA DAMAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECA GENE; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REC A RECOMBINASES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79952486887     PISSN: 14729792     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tube.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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