Genetic evidence of separate repressor and activator activities of the XylR regulator of the TOL plasmid, pWW0, of Pseudomonas putida

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1221-1227

  Bertoni, Giovanni ^a,c   Pérez Martín, José ^a,b   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Span Min of Education and Science ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEOPROTEINS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHO FACTOR; TOLUENE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030901173     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1997.3091673.x     Document Type: Article

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