Extra Cytoplasmic Function sigma factors, recent structural insights into promoter recognition and regulation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 71-78

  Campagne, Sébastien ^a   Allain, Frédéric H T ^a   Vorholt, Julia A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

BASE PAIRING; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REVIEW; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BACTERIUM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 84922424034     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.01.006     Document Type: Review

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