Activation of transcription initiation from a stable RNA promoter by a Fis protein-mediated DNA structural transmission mechanism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 665-674

  Opel, Michael L ^a   Aeling, Kimberly A ^a   Holmes, Walter M ^b   Johnson, Reid C ^c   Benham, Craig J ^d   Hatfield, G Wesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 3242875113     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04147.x     Document Type: Article

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