The regulation of bacterial transcription initiation

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 57-65

  Browning, Douglas F ^a   Busby, Stephen J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; ISOMERIZATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA BINDING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 1842591130     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro787     Document Type: Review

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