Mode of Regulation and the Insulation of Bacterial Gene Expression

Molecular Cell

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 399-407

  Sasson, Vered ^a   Shachrai, Irit ^a,b   Bren, Anat ^a   Dekel, Erez ^a   Alon, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LAC PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CRP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; INSULATION; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRESSOR GENE;

CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84861426505     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.04.032     Document Type: Article

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