Improving the predictive value of the competence transcription factor (ComK) binding site in Bacillus subtilis using a genomic approach

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2002, Pages 5517-5528

  Hamoen, Leendert W ^a   Smits, Wiep Klaas ^a   de Jong, Anne ^a   Holsappel, Siger ^a   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETENCE TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENZYME BINDING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037115816     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkf698     Document Type: Review

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