DNase I footprinting, DNA bending and in vitro transcription analyses of ClcR and CatR interactions with the clcABD promoter: Evidence of a conserved transcriptional activation mechanism

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 965-976

  McFall, Sally M ^a   Klem, Thomas J ^a   Fujita, Nobuyuki ^b   Ishihama, Akira ^b   Chakrabarty, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; BENZOIC ACID; CATECHOL; CURVED DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; MUCONIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSACTIVATION;

PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0030754611     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.4041763.x     Document Type: Article

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