Aerobic regulation of cytochrome d oxidase (cydAB) operon expression in Escherichia coli: Roles of Fnr and Arca in repression and activation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 605-615

  Cotter, Peggy A ^a,b   Melville, Stephen B ^a,c   Albrecht, Jeffrey A ^a,d   Gunsalus, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d National Genetics Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARCA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030764901     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.5031860.x     Document Type: Article

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