Direct and indirect effects in the regulation of overlapping promoters

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 6879-6885

  Bendtsen, Kristian Moss ^a   Erdssy, János ^b   Csiszovszki, Zsolt ^c   Svenningsen, Sine Lo ^d   Sneppen, Kim ^a   Krishna, Sandeep ^a,e   Semsey, Szabolcs ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LAC REPRESSORS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80052502602     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr390     Document Type: Article

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