Mycobacterial transcriptional signals: Requirements for recognition by RNA polymerase and optimal transcriptional activity

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 4245-4257

  Agarwal, Nisheeth ^a   Tyagi, Anil K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACTERIAL GENETICS; COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTAGENESIS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MYCOBACTERIUM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33749150995     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl521     Document Type: Article

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