Silencing of toxic gene expression by Fis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 4358-4367

  Karambelkar, Shweta ^a   Swapna, Ganduri ^a   Nagaraja, Valakunja ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIOPHAGE MU; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOM GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE MU;

EID: 84861551929     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks037     Document Type: Article

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