Genomic Databases and Sequence Searching

• BLAST with microbial genomes
• Microbial genomes at NCBI
• RegulonDB: A Database on Transcriptional Regulation and Genome Organization
• EcoGene
• CGSC:E.coli Genetic Stock Center
• The E. coli Index
• KEGG: Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
• EcoCyc: Encyclopedia of Escherichia coli Genes and Metabolism
• Echobase: a database of E. coli genes characterised since the completion of the genome sequence.
• CyanoBase: Genome database for cyanobacteria
• Salmonella Genetic Stock Center
• Microbial Genomes at the Sanger Institute

Software tools

• SEQSCAN: search for sigma54 and IHF binding sites Temporarily offline
• Regulatory Sequence Analysis Tools

Literature

• PubMed search at NCBI
• Genome Gateway Papers at Nature

Tutorials and Miscellaneous

• Analysis of E. coli Promoters
• OMM Exhibits: The N-terminal Receiver Domain of Nitrogen Regulatory Protein C
• Bioinformatics: Careers online
• Molecular Genetics lectures by Dr. William B. Gurley
• Alternate Sigma Factors: Sigma 54 and Nitrogen
• Microbes in Norwich

Laboratories and Personal Homepages

Research groups with some interest in enhancer-dependent transcription in bacteria.
(This list is certainly not complete).

• M. Buck's Laboratory
• B. T. Nixon Laboratory
• D. Studholme
• K. Severinov Laboratory: Mechanisms of Transcription in Microorganisms
• D. Kaiser Laboratory: Sigma⁵⁴ in Myxococci
• J. Gralla Laboratory
• T. Hoover Laboratory
• M. Merrick Laboratory
• E. Morett Laboratory
• K. Klose Laboratory: pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera
• R. Dixon Laboratory: Environmental signalling in response to oxygen, redox and nitrogen status
• A. Malhotra Laboratory: Structural Studies of Sigma⁵⁴ Based Transcriptional Initiation & Activation
• J. Collado-Vides Laboratory: Program of Computational Genomics
• G. Zhang Laboratory
• L. Reitzer Laboratory: Regulation of Bacterial Gene Expression and Metabolism
• S. Kustu Laboratory: Bacterial physiology and genetics; regulation of nitrogen metabolism
• P. Stockley Laboratory: Transcriptional regulation and transcriptome analysis
• R. Kranz Laboratory: Gene regulatory studies
• V. Shingler Laboratory: Signal Sensing and Integration in Bacteria
• R. Bender Laboratory: Regulation of Microbial Nitrogen Metabolism
• C. Penn Laboratory: Cellular and molecular biology, pathogenesis and persistence of foodborne bacterial pathogens.