Multiple Sigma Subunits and the Partitioning of Bacterial Transcription Space

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2003, Pages 441-466

  Gruber, Tanja M ^a   Gross, Carol A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacillus subtilis; Cyanobacteria; Escherichia coli; RNA polymerase; Streptomyces coelicolor

Indexed keywords

DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHLOROPLAST; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA BINDING; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGMA FACTOR; STREPTOMYCES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 0242692671     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.57.030502.090913     Document Type: Review

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