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Conserved and Variable Functions of the σE Stress Response in Related Genomes
12 Dec 2005
Abstract excerpt
Bacteria often cope with environmental stress by inducing alternative sigma (sigma) factors, which direct RNA polymerase to specific promoters, thereby inducing a set of genes called a regulon to combat the stress. To understand the conserved and organism-specific functions of each sigma, it is necessary to be able to predict their promoters, so that their regulons can be followed across species. However, the...
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