Widespread suppression of intragenic transcription initiation by H-NS

Genes and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 214-219

  Singh, Shivani S ^a   Singh, Navjot ^b   Bonocora, Richard P ^b   Fitzgerald, Devon M ^c   Wade, Joseph T ^b,c   Grainger, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

H NS; Nucleoid; Pervasive transcription

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA FRAGMENT; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENTEROHEMORRHAGIC ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

H-NS; NUCLEOID; PERVASIVE TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; INTRONS; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 84893483166     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: 15495477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.234336.113     Document Type: Article

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