Assays for transcription factor activity

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 543, Issue , 2009, Pages 369-387

  Browning, Douglas ^a   Savery, Nigel ^a   Kolb, Annie ^a   Busby, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abortive initiation; Activator proteins; Gene regulation; In vitro transcription; Potassium permanganate footprinting; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; PERMANGANATE POTASSIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYMOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PLASMIDS; POTASSIUM PERMANGANATE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 67649092170     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-015-1_23     Document Type: Article

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