The Escherichia coli modE gene: Effect of modE mutations on molybdate dependent modA expression

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-123

  McNicholas, Paul M ^a   Chiang, Robin C ^a   Gunsalus, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

modABCD operon; Molybdate binding domain; Transcriptional repressor

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MALATE DEHYDROGENASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLYBDENUM; MUTATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030589128     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1097(96)00398-9     Document Type: Article

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