A dual switch controls bacterial enhancer-dependent transcription

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 10878-10892

  Wiesler, Simone C ^a   Burrows, Patricia C ^a   Buck, Martin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MYXOPYRONIN; PROTEIN VARIANT; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL VIABILITY; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SWITCHING; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOLOENZYMES; HYDROLYSIS; LACTONES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84870605259     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks844     Document Type: Article

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