Involvement of Fnr and ArcA in anaerobic expression of the tdc operon of Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 179, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 4868-4873

  Chattopadhyay, Sudip ^a,b   Wu, Yifei ^a   Datta, Prasanta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING SITE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA BINDING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ARCA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0030835705     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.179.15.4868-4873.1997     Document Type: Article

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