DNA looping can enhance lysogenic CI transcription in phage lambda

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5827-5832

  Anderson, L Meadow ^a,b   Yang, Haw ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage lambda; Flow cytometry; Gene regulation

Indexed keywords

CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; LYSOGENIZATION; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; STEADY STATE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; DNA, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 44449154784     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705570105     Document Type: Article

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