The extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factors

Advances in Microbial Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2002, Pages 47-110

  Heimann, John D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTINORHODINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DACTINOMYCIN; FOSFOMYCIN; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PENICILLIN BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SERINE PROTEINASE; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUNICAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; DNA BINDING; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035985580     PISSN: 00652911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2911(02)46002-X     Document Type: Review

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