Differential stringent control of Escherichia coli rRNA promoters: Effects of ppGpp, DksA and the initiating nucleotides

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2871-2879

  Kolmsee, Tim ^a,b   Delic, Denis ^a,c   Agyenim, Tommy ^a   Calles, Christian ^a,d   Wagner, Rolf ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BASE SEQUENCE; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, BACTERIAL; RRNA OPERON;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80053460132     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.052357-0     Document Type: Article

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