Promoter protection by a transcription factor acting as a local topological homeostat

EMBO Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 355-360

  Rochman, Mark ^a   Aviv, Michal ^a   Glaser, Gad ^a   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; DNA SUPERCOILING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMEOSTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINOCOUMARINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COUMARINS; DNA GYRASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MUTATION; NOVOBIOCIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0036251235     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/embo-reports/kvf067     Document Type: Article

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