Promoters controlling expression of the alternative nitrogenase and the molybdenum uptake system in Rhodobacter capsulatus are activated by NtrC, independent of σ54, and repressed by molybdenum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 178, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2010-2017

  Kutsche, Michael ^a   Leimkühler, Silke ^a   Angermüller, Sieglinde ^a   Klipp, Werner ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; MOLYBDENUM; NITROGENASE;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLYBDENUM; MUTATION; NITROGENASE; OPERON; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

PROKARYOTA; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0029874911     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.178.7.2010-2017.1996     Document Type: Article

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