Role of HU and DNA supercoiling in transcription repression: Specialized nucleoprotein repression complex at gal promoters in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 451-461

  Lewis, Dale E A ^a   Geanacopoulos, Mark ^a   Adhya, Sankar ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUMAMYCIN; HISTONE; NUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REPORTER GENE;

AMINOCOUMARINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; COUMARINS; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEOPROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032945039     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01186.x     Document Type: Article

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