The local repressor AcrR plays a modulating role in the regulation of acrAB genes of Escherichia coli by global stress signals

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 101-112

  Ma, Dzwokai ^a,b   Alberti, Marie ^b   Lynch, Christy ^a   Nikaido, Hiroshi ^a   Hearst, John E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; STRESS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA;

EID: 0030023489     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.357881.x     Document Type: Article

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