Evolution of transcriptional regulation system through promiscuous coupling of regulatory proteins with operons; Suggestion from protein sequence similarities in Escherichia coli

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 183-204

  Otsuka, Jinya ^a   Watanabe, Hidemi ^a,b   Mori, Kentaro T ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Assoc Propagation Knowledge Genet   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE TRANSPORT; ESCHERICHIA; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029961137     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0016     Document Type: Article

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