The molecular basis of selective promoter activation by the σs subunit of RNA polymerase

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1296-1306

  Typas, Athanasios ^a   Becker, Gisela ^a   Hengge, Regine ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOENZYME; RNA POLYMERASE; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 70; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA S; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL FUNCTION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEREOISOMERISM; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33846947959     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05601.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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