Transcriptional regulation of the Escherichia coli rhaT gene

Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1833-1840

  Vía, Pilar ^a   Badía, Josefa ^a   Baldomà, Laura ^a   Obradors, Nuria ^a   Aguilar, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Regulation; Rhamnose transport; rhaT; Transcription

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; GLUCOSE; MANNOSE; RHAMNOSE;

ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0029889983     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/13500872-142-7-1833     Document Type: Article

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