The function of auxiliary operators

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 13-18

  Müller Hill, Benno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0031871889     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00870.x     Document Type: Review

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