Structure and evolution of transcriptional regulatory networks

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 283-291

  Babu, M Madan ^a   Luscombe, Nicholas M ^b   Aravind, L ^c   Gerstein, Mark ^b   Teichmann, Sarah A ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING; DUPLICATE GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 2942606066     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2004.05.004     Document Type: Review

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