Identification and analysis of DNA-binding transcription factors in Bacillus subtilis and other Firmicutes - A genomic approach

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Moreno Campuzano, Samadhi ^a   Janga, Sarath Chandra ^b   Pérez Rueda, Ernesto ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACILLALES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIRMICUTES; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLALES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; FIRMICUTES; MOLLICUTES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33748679406     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-147     Document Type: Article

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