Dynamics of transcription driven by the tetA promoter, one event at a time, in live Escherichia coli cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 8472-8483

  Muthukrishnan, Anantha Barathi ^a   Kandhavelu, Meenakshisundaram ^a   Lloyd Price, Jason ^a   Kudasov, Fedor ^a   Chowdhury, Sharif ^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

BACTERIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KOLMOGOROV SMIRNOV TEST; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STRUCTURAL GENE; TEMPERATURE; TETA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANTIPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; KINETICS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84866904111     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks583     Document Type: Article

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