Involvement of CysB and Cbl regulatory proteins in expression of the tauABCD operon and other sulfate starvation-inducible genes in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 7671-7678

  Van Der Ploeg, Jan R ^a   Iwanicka Nowicka, Roksana ^b   Kertesz, Michael A ^a   Leisinger, Thomas ^a   Hryniewicz, Monika M ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND BIOPHYSICS   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SERINE DERIVATIVE; SULFATE; SULFONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SULFUR; TAURINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030780264     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.24.7671-7678.1997     Document Type: Article

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