Stimulation of the λ pR promoter by Escherichia coli SeqA protein requires downstream GATC sequences and involves late stages of transcription initiation

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2985-2992

  Łyzeń, Robert ^a   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a   Wȩgrzyn, Alicja ^a   Szalewska Pałasz, Agnieszka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL DNA; CYTOSINE; GUANINE; PROTEIN SEQA; THYMIDINE; TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SEQA PROTEIN, E COLI; VIRUS DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SUPERCOILING; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA, VIRAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33749643554     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.29110-0     Document Type: Article

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