Identifying global regulators in transcriptional regulatory networks in bacteria

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 482-489

  Martínez Antonio, Agustino ^a   Collado Vides, Julio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QS 21;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; AUTOREGULATION; CELL KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OSCILLATION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0242386460     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2003.09.002     Document Type: Review

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