Middle promoters constitute the most abundant and diverse class of promoters in bacteriophage T4

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 421-434

  Stoškiene, Giedre ^a   Truncaite, Lidija ^a   Zajančkauskaite, Aurelija ^a   Nivinskas, Rimas ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASIA PROTEIN; MOTA BOX PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; GENES, VIRAL; GENOME, VIRAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 34247385558     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05659.x     Document Type: Article

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