Comparative genomics and evolution of regulons of the LacI-family transcription factors

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue JUN, 2014, Pages 1-1

  Ravcheev, Dmitry A ^a   Khoroshkin, Matvei S ^a   Laikova, Olga N ^a   Tsoy, Olga V ^a,b   Sernova, Natalia V ^a   Petrova, Svetlana A ^a,b   Rakhmaninova, Aleksandra B ^b   Novichkov, Pavel S ^c   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^a   Rodionov, Dmitry A ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Comparative genomics; Regulons; Sugar metabolism; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905163367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00294     Document Type: Article

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