Buffering of stable RNA promoter activity against DNA relaxation requires a far upstream sequence

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 143-152

  Rochman, Mark ^a,b   Blot, Nico ^a,c   Dyachenko, Marina ^a   Glaser, Gad ^b   Travers, Andrew ^d   Muskhelishvili, Georgi ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^d MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 3142588939     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04126.x     Document Type: Article

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