Location and dynamics of an active promoter in Escherichia coli K-12

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 441, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 481-485

  Sánchez Romero, María Antonia ^a   Lee, David J ^a   Sánchez Morán, Eugenio ^a   Busby, Stephen J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial nucleoid; Escherichia coli; Promoter location; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LAC REPRESSOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; FLUORESCENCE; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LAC REPRESSORS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84055223488     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20111258     Document Type: Article

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