An overview of prokaryotic transcription factors: A summary of function and occurrence in bacterial genomes

Sub-Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 52, Issue , 2011, Pages 7-23

  Seshasayee, Aswin Sai Narain ^a   Sivaraman, Karthikeyan ^a   Luscombe, Nicholas M ^b,c  

^a EMBL European Bioinformatics Institute ^*

^b EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti cholesterol antibody; Cholesterol binding toxin; Lipid raft; Microdomain; Perfringolysin O; Plasma membrane

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84934880808     PISSN: 03060225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9069-0_2     Document Type: Article

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