Thinking quantitatively about transcriptional regulation

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 221-232

  Greive, Sandra J ^a   Von Hippel, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; RHO FACTOR; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

BASE PAIRING; CROSS LINKING; DNA RNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA TEMPLATE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSPORT; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

DNA HELICASES; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 14644407528     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1588     Document Type: Review

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