FIS modulates growth phase-dependent topological transitions of DNA in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 519-530

  Schneider, Robert ^a   Travers, Andrew ^b   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SUPERCOILING; DYNAMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030668269     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5951971.x     Document Type: Article

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