What is life? The paradigm of DNA and protein cooperation at high local concentrations

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 253-255

  Müller Hill, Benno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENZYME; GUANINE; LAC REPRESSOR; LAMBDA REPRESSOR; PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; THYMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CELL; CELL WALL; DNA BINDING; DNA HELIX; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOSE OPERON; LYSOSOME; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; LIFE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33645323777     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05126.x     Document Type: Review

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