Strength and regulation without transcription factors: Lessons from bacterial rRNA promoters

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 131-139

  Gourse, R L ^a   Gaal, T ^a   Aiyar, S E ^a   Barker, M M ^a   Estrem, S T ^a   Hirvonen, C A ^a   Ross, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOSIDE TRIPHOSPHATE; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

EID: 0032451111     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.131     Document Type: Conference Paper

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