Transcription attenuation: A highly conserved regulatory strategy used by bacteria

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 260-264

  Merino, Enrique ^a   Yanofsky, Charles ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII; METABOLITE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURAL GENE;

EID: 17644366759     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2005.03.002     Document Type: Short Survey

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