Computational prediction and experimental verification of novel IdeR binding sites in the upstream sequences of Mycobacterium tuberculosis open reading frames

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2161-2166

  Prakash, Prachee ^a   Yellaboina, Sailu ^a   Ranjan, Akash ^a   Hasnain, Seyed E ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; GENOMIC DNA; IRON DEPENDENT REGULATOR; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BINDING ASSAY; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; ENTROPY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; METHODOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 19544383636     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti375     Document Type: Article

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