Comparison of tryptophan biosynthetic operon regulation in different Gram-positive bacterial species

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 422-427

  Gutiérrez Preciado, Ana ^a   Yanofsky, Charles ^b   Merino, Enrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CARBOXYDOTHERMUS HYDROGENOFORMANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEHALOCOCCOIDES ETHENOGENES; DESULFITOBACTERIUM HAFNIENSE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OCEANOBACILLUS IHEYENSIS; OPERON; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STREPTOCOCCUS THERMOPHILUS; SYNTROPHOMONAS WOLFEI;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; TRYPTOPHAN;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 34447565571     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2007.05.005     Document Type: Short Survey

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