Genomic position analyses and the transcription machinery

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 275, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-170

  Pérez Rueda, Ernesto ^a   Gralla, Jay D ^b   Collado Vides, Julio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Operator binding sites; Positional analysis; Protein domains; Transcriptional machinery

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DATA BASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0342818061     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1465     Document Type: Article

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