Genome architecture and global gene regulation in bacteria: Making progress towards a unified model?

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 349-355

  Dorman, Charles J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; NUCLEOID ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84876418455     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3007     Document Type: Review

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