Reconstruction of the core and extended regulons of global transcription factors

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Dufour, Yann S ^a   Kiley, Patricia J ^b   Donohue, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DNR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FIXK; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FNR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FNRL PROTEIN, RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REGULON; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REGULON; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 77957325735     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001027     Document Type: Article

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