The biology of enhancer-dependent transcriptional regulation in bacteria: Insights from genome sequences

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-9

  Studholme, David J ^a   Buck, Martin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial genome; Nitrogen metabolism; Pathogenesis; RpoN; Sigma factor; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACTERIAL GENE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOME; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BACTERIA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AQUIFEX AEOLICUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 0034192966     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00082-3     Document Type: Short Survey

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