The TACAN4TGCA motif upstream from the -35 region in the σ70-σ(s)- dependent Pm promoter of the TOL plasmid is the minimum DNA segment required for transcription stimulation by XylS regulators

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 22, 1996, Pages 6427-6434

  Gallegos, M Trinidad ^a   Marqués, Silvia ^a   Ramos, Juan L ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; MESSENGER RNA; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 70; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR KATF PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; XYLS PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POINT MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BENZOATES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIGMA FACTOR; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029658258     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.22.6427-6434.1996     Document Type: Article

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