Experimental and computation analysis of transcriptional start sites in the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus MED4

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2890-2899

  Vogel, Jörg ^a   Axmann, Ilka M ^b   Herzel, Hanspeter ^b   Hess, Wolfgang R ^b,c  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Ocean Genome Legacy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SIGMA FACTOR; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROMOTER REGION; SCORING SYSTEM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; PROCHLOROCOCCUS SP.; PROKARYOTA;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIA; GENES, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 0037592860     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg398     Document Type: Article

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