Transcriptional activation of the citrate permease P gene of Lactococcus lactis biovar diacetylactis by an insertion sequence-like element present in plasmid pCIT264

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 250, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 428-436

  López De Felipe, Felix ^a   Magni, Christian ^b   De Mendoza, Diego ^b   López, Paloma ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; expression of citP gene; Lactococcus lactis; plasmid pCIT264; transcriptional activation

Indexed keywords

CITRATE PERMEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029919467     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050095     Document Type: Article

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