Distinct and Contrasting Transcription Initiation Patterns at Mycobacterium tuberculosis Promoters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Tare, Priyanka ^a   China, Arnab ^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

RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GYR GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RRN GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENES, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEOTIDES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84866116818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043900     Document Type: Article

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