Switch from θ to σ replication of bacteriophage λ DNA: Factors involved in the process and a model for its regulation

Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Volumn 278, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 65-74

  Narajczyk, Magdalena ^a   Barańska, Sylwia ^a   Węgrzyn, Alicja ^b   Wȩgrzyn, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage development; DNA replication; Genetic switch; Transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SWITCHING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 34250313233     PISSN: 16174615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00438-007-0228-y     Document Type: Article

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