Involvement of DNA curvature in intergenic regions of prokaryotes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 2316-2327

  Kozobay Avraham, Limor ^a   Hosid, Sergey ^a   Bolshoy, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; CURVED DNA; GENOMIC DNA; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA POLYMERASE; SPACER DNA; ARCHAEAL DNA; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PASTEURELLA MULTOCIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENOME; GENOMICS; REGULATOR GENE;

PROKARYOTA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TERMINATOR REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 33646853178     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl230     Document Type: Article

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