Characterization of pepR1, a gene coding for a potential transcriptional regulator of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis DSM7290

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-69

  Stucky, Klaus ^a   Schick, Joachim ^a   Klein, Jürgen Robert ^a   Henrich, Bernhard ^a   Plapp, Roland ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Helix turn helix motif; LacI family; Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOBACILLUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HELIX-TURN-HELIX MOTIFS; ISOELECTRIC POINT; LACTOBACILLUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOBACILLUS; LACTOBACILLUS DELBRUECKII SUBSP. LACTIS;

EID: 0030065763     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(95)00494-7     Document Type: Article

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