Regulation of the operon responsible for broad-spectrum mercury resistance in Streptomyces lividans 1326

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 307-315

  Brünker, Peter ^a   Rother, Dagmar ^a   Sedlmeier, Reinhard ^b   Klein, Joachim ^a   Mattes, Ralf ^a   Altenbuchner, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gel mobility shift; Mercury resistance; Repressor; Streptomyces lividans; Transcriptional fusions

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MERCURY; NUCLEASE S1; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CATECHOL 2,3-DIOXYGENASE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DIOXYGENASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; MERCURY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; OXYGENASES; PHENYLMERCURIC ACETATE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 0029903025     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050171     Document Type: Article

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