Compromised sactor-dependent transcription termination in a NusA mutant of Escherichia coli: Spectrum of termination efficiencies generated by perturbations of Rho, NusG, NusA, and H-NS family proteins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3842-3850

  Saxena, Shivalika ^a   Gowrishankar, J ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; NUSA PROTEIN; NUSG PROTEIN; RHO FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ELONGATION FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; FIMG PROTEIN, E COLI; NUSA PROTEIN, E COLI; NUSG PROTEIN, E COLI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LETHALITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTORS; RHO FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 79960403434     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00221-11     Document Type: Article

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