Concentration and length dependence of DNA looping in transcriptional regulation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Han, Lin ^a   Garcia, Hernan G ^a   Blumberg, Seth ^a   Towles, Kevin B ^b   Beausang, John F ^b   Nelson, Philip C ^b   Phillips, Rob ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN LAC; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LACI PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE CONSTRUCT; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUTAGENESIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTAGENESIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 66249118030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005621     Document Type: Article

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