Transcriptional control of the Pseudomonas TOL plasmid catabolic operons is achieved through an interplay of host factors and plasmid-encoded regulators

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue , 1997, Pages 341-373

  Ramos, Juan L ^a   Marqués, Silvia ^a   Timmis, Kenneth N ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catabolite repression; DNA bending proteins; NtrC family; Promoters; Sigma factors; XylS family

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BENZOATES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR; TOLUENE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; XYLENES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0030860391     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.51.1.341     Document Type: Review

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