The ftsZ gene of mycobacterium smegmatis is expressed through multiple transcripts

Open Microbiology Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 43-53

  Roy, Sougata ^a,b   Anand, Deepak ^a   Vijay, Srinivasan ^a   Gupta, Prabuddha ^a,c   Ajitkumar, Parthasarathi ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

FtsZ; Hypoxia; Mycobacterium smegmatis; Primer extension; Promoter; Transcripts

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FTSQ GENE; FTSZ GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOXIA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAPROTROPH; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 79961041632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874285801105010043     Document Type: Article

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