Transcription factor as a topological homeostat

Frontiers in Bioscience

Volumn , Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^a   Travers, Andrew ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin Architecture; DNA supercoiling; FIS; Review; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN ARCHITECTURAL PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION;

DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

PROKARYOTA;

FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; HOMEOSTASIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0012690768     PISSN: 27686701     EISSN: 27686698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2741/969     Document Type: Review

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