Bound to succeed: Transcription factor Binding-site prediction and its contribution to understanding virulence and environmental adaptation in bacterial plant pathogens

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1123-1130

  Saha, Surya ^a   Lindeberg, Magdalen ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84884782745     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-04-13-0090-CR     Document Type: Review

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