Dual RpoH sigma factors
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1 2 Dual RpoH sigma factors and transcriptional plasticity in a symbiotic bacterium 3 4 RUNNING TITLE 5 Dual RpoH sigma factors in Sinorhizobium meliloti 6 7 8 Melanie J. Barnett, Alycia N. Bittner, Carol J. Toman, Valerie Oke and Sharon R. Long # 9 10 Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020; and Department of 11 Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 12 13 Present address: Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, 14 Houston, TX 77030 15 16 17 Corresponding author: [email protected] 18 Copyright © 2012, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved. J. Bacteriol. doi:10.1128/JB.00449-12 JB Accepts, published online ahead of print on 6 July 2012
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