Post-initiation control by the initiation factor sigma

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Artsimovitch, Irina ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BINDING AFFINITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN VARIANT; RNA SYNTHESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 40549101013     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06136.x     Document Type: Note

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