Sigma70 promoters in Escherichia coli: Specific transcription in dense regions of overlapping promoter-like signals

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 333, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 261-278

  Huerta, Araceli M ^a   Collado Vides, Julio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Computational predictions; Escherichia coli; Overlapping signals; Sigma70 promoters

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DENSITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PERFORMANCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; START CODON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0141758085     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.07.017     Document Type: Article

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