Identification and characterization of the Cognate anti-sigma factor and specific promoter elements of a T. tengcongensis ECF sigma factor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Jingfang ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Wu, Zhenfang ^a   Pei, Huadong ^a,b   Zhou, Jian ^a   Xiang, Hua ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; PROTEIN TT RPOE1; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR ANTIBODY; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE LOCATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; THERMOANAEROBACTER; THERMOANAEROBACTER TENGCONGENSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TT RPOE1 GENE; TT TOLB GENE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SIGMA FACTOR; THERMOANAEROBACTER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

THERMOANAEROBACTER TENGCONGENSIS;

EID: 84864007920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040885     Document Type: Article

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