Cloning and identification of the Sulfolobus solfataricus lrp gene encoding an archaeal homologue of the eubacterial leucine-responsive global transcriptional regulator Lrp

Gene

Volumn 201, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 63-68

  Charlier, Daniel ^a,b   Roovers, Martine ^b,c   Thia Toong, Thia Lin ^b,c   Durbecq, Virginie ^d   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^a,b,c  

^a Institut de Recherches du CERIA   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Archaea; Gene promoter; Prokaryotes; Regulation; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; LEUCINE; MESSENGER RNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHANOBACTERIUM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, ARCHAEAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, ARCHAEAL; LEUCINE; LEUCINE-RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SULFOLOBUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOCALDOCOCCUS JANNASCHII; METHANOCOCCUS; PROKARYOTA; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 0030844095     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00428-9     Document Type: Article

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