The effects of DNA supercoiling on the expression of operons of the ilv regulon of Escherichia coli suggest a physiological rationale for divergently transcribed operons

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1109-1115

  Opel, Michael L ^a   Arfin, Stuart M ^a   Wesley Hatfield, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURAL GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035109120     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02309.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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