Effects of nucleoid-associated proteins on bacterial chromosome structure and gene expression

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 773-780

  Browning, Douglas F ^a   Grainger, David C ^b   Busby, Stephen JW ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 78649640318     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2010.09.013     Document Type: Review

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