Mutational analysis of the mycobacteriophage BPs promoter PR reveals context-dependent sequences for mycobacterial gene expression

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 196, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 3589-3597

  Oldfield, Lauren M ^a   Hatfull, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONIN 60; BACTERIAL DNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BIOINFORMATICS; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; MUTATION; MYCOBACTERIOPHAGES; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84907097044     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01801-14     Document Type: Article

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