The origin of prokaryotic C2H2 zinc finger regulators

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 77-81

  Bouhouche, Naima ^a   Syvanen, Michael ^b   Kado, Clarence I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 0033952361     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0966-842X(99)01679-0     Document Type: Review

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