Transcription Activation Parameters at ara pBAD

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 14-24

  Zhang, Xin ^a   Reeder, Thadd ^a,b   Schleif, Robert ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Footprint; Open complex; RNA polymerase; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARA; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029928896     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0230     Document Type: Article

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