DNA supercoiling - A global transcriptional regulator for enterobacterial growth?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 157-169

  Travers, Andrew ^a   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^b  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DNA SUPERCOILING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROWTH REGULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 13444288385     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1088     Document Type: Review

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