Prediction of co-regulated genes in Bacillus subtilis on the basis of upstream elements conserved across three closely related species

Genome Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2001, Pages

  Terai, Goro ^a,b   Takagi, Toshihisa ^a   Nakai, Kenta ^a  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INTEC Web and Genome Informatics Corp   (Japan)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Glucose Repression; Orthologous Gene; Regulon; Upstream Region

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XANTHINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GLUCOSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XANTHINE;

EID: 0035226487     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2001-2-11-research0048     Document Type: Article

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