Escherichia coli σ 70 senses sequence and conformation of the promoter spacer region

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 5109-5118

  Singh, Shivani S ^a   Typas, Athanasios ^b   Hengge, Regine ^b   Grainger, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR 70; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOINFORMATICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GROWTH INHIBITION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79960237269     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr080     Document Type: Article

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