Characterizing the interplay between multiple levels of organization within bacterial sigma factor regulatory networks

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Qiu, Yu ^a   Nagarajan, Harish ^a   Embree, Mallory ^a   Shieu, Wendy ^a   Abate, Elisa ^a   Juárez, Katy ^b   Cho, Byung Kwan ^a   Elkins, James G ^a   Nevin, Kelly P ^c   Barrett, Christian L ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^c   Palsson, Bernhard O ^a   Zengler, Karsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; TOPOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; ENERGY METABOLISM; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ENERGY METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REGULON; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84877759003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2743     Document Type: Article

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