The various strategies within the TyrR regulon of Escherichia coli to modulate gene expression

Genes to Cells

Volumn 1, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 717-725

  Pittard, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; AROP PROTEIN, E COLI; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; PHENYLALANINE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; TYRR PROTEIN, E COLI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENYLALANINE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE;

EID: 0030203778     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.1996.tb00012.x     Document Type: Article

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