Archaeal transcription: Function of an alternative transcription factor B from Pyrococcus furiosus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 157-167

  Micorescu, Michael ^a   Grünberg, Sebastian ^b   Franke, Andreas ^b   Cramer, Patrick ^c   Thomm, Michael ^b   Bartlett, Michael ^a  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR B; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CROSS LINKING; GDH GENE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; PEPTIDE CHAIN INITIATION, TRANSLATIONAL; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TFIIB; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS;

EID: 37549061018     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01498-07     Document Type: Article

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