Exploring the role of SlrR and SlrA in the SinR epigenetic switch

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Newman, Joseph A ^a,b   Lewis, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive responses; Bacillus; Biofilm; Protein interactions; SinR; Transcriptional repression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894106245     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.25658     Document Type: Article

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