Positional conservation of clusters of overlapping promoter-like sequences in enterobacterial genomes

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 997-1010

  Huerta, Araceli M ^a,b   Collado Vides, Julio ^b   Francino, M Pilar ^a  

^a DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Bacterial promoters; Comparative genomics; Regulatory evolution; Signal redundancy

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRP GENE; DNAQ GENE; ENDOSYMBIONT; ENTEROBACTER; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EUKARYOTA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 33646540406     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msk004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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