In vitro transcription profiling of the σ s subunit of bacterial RNA polymerase: Re-definition of the σ s regulon and identification of σ s-specific promoter sequence elements

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 5338-5355

  MacIa̧g, Anna ^a   Peano, Clelia ^b   Pietrelli, Alessandro ^b   Egli, Thomas ^c   De Bellis, Gianluca ^b   Landini, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA CONTENT; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA TEMPLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80052213074     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr129     Document Type: Article

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