Structural properties of promoters: Similarities and differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3165-3175

  Kanhere, Aditi ^a   Bansal, Manju ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENE LOCATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GENETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFORMATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; PLANT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); VERTEBRATES;

EID: 20344396385     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki627     Document Type: Article

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