Phyletic distribution and conservation of the bacterial transcription termination factor rho

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART7, 2013, Pages 1423-1436

  D'Heygère, François ^a,b   Rabhi, Makhlouf ^a   Boudvillain, Marc ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BICOZAMYCIN; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL MUTATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; HYDROLYSIS; MOLLICUTES; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA BINDING;

BACTERIA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PHYLOGENY; RHO FACTOR; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; MOLLICUTES;

EID: 84879825955     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.067462-0     Document Type: Article

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