Modeling DNA-binding of Escherichia coli σ70 exhibits a characteristic energy landscape around strong promoters

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 7003-7010

  Weindl, Johanna ^a   Hanus, Pavol ^a   Dawy, Zaher ^b   Zech, Juergen ^c   Hagenauer, Joachim ^a   Mueller, Jakob C ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; ENERGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRENGTH; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 36749088055     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm720     Document Type: Article

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