The functional and regulatory roles of sigma factors in transcription

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 63, Issue , 1998, Pages 141-155

  Gross, C A ^a   Chan, C ^a   Dombroski, A ^b   Gruber, T ^a   Sharp, M ^a   Tupy, J ^a   Young, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; HOLOENZYME;

CHEMICAL BOND; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENOME; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BASE PAIRING; COMPETITIVE BINDING ASSAY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA TEMPLATE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032459427     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.1998.63.141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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