Bacterial transcription factors involved in global regulation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 8-17

  Vicente, Miguel ^a   Chater, Keith F ^b   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL DIVISION; CELL GROWTH; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RIBOSOMES; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033011422     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01445.x     Document Type: Review

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