Comparative Genomics of CytR, an Unusual Member of the LacI Family of Transcription Factors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Sernova, Natalia V ^a   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CRP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CYTR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROBACTERIALES; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULON; VIBRIONALES;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; LAC REPRESSORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ENTEROBACTERIALES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; VIBRIONALES;

EID: 84866708036     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044194     Document Type: Article

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