Analysis of CcpA mutations defective in carbon catabolite repression in Bacillus megaterium

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 221-226

  Kraus, Alexandra ^a   Hillen, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARBON; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CATABOLISM; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNOLOGY;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME REPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, DOMINANT; GLUCOSE; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; XYLOSE;

BACILLUS MEGATERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0030861422     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00264-4     Document Type: Article

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