In vivo kinetics of transcription initiation of the lar promoter in Escherichia coli. Evidence for a sequential mechanism with two rate-limiting steps

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kandhavelu, Meenakshisundaram ^a   Mannerström, Henrik ^a   Gupta, Abhishekh ^a   Häkkinen, Antti ^a   Lloyd Price, Jason ^a   Yli Harja, Olli ^a,b   Ribeiro, Andre S ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROKARYOTA;

ARABINOSE; PRIMER DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETICS; KINETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROMOTER REGION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARABINOSE; DNA PRIMERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; LAC OPERON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 80053171945     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-5-149     Document Type: Article

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