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Computational analysis of LexA regulons in Cyanobacteria.
BMC genomics - 29 Sept 2010
Li Shan, Xu Minli, Su Zhengchang
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The transcription factor LexA plays an important role in the SOS response in Escherichia coli and many other bacterial species studied. Although the lexA gene is encoded in almost every bacterial group with a wide range of evolutionary distances, its precise functions in each group/species are largely unknown. More recently, it has been shown that lexA genes in two cyanobacterial genomes Nostoc sp....
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