Transcription regulation by initiating NTP concentration: rRNA synthesis in bacteria

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5346, 1997, Pages 2092-2097

  Gaal, Tamas ^a   Bartlett, Michael S ^a   Ross, Wilma ^a   Turnbough Jr , Charles L ^b   Gourse, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME RNA;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; RIBOSOME; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HALF-LIFE; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RRNA OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031443321     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5346.2092     Document Type: Article

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