Regulation of sigma 54-dependent transcription by core promoter sequences: Role of -12 region nucleotides

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 7558-7565

  Wang, Lei ^a   Guo, Yuli ^a   Gralla, Jay D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032785893     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.24.7558-7565.1999     Document Type: Article

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