The regulatory protein MucR binds to a short DNA region located upstream of the mucR coding region in Rhizobium meliloti

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 254, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 529-538

  Bertram Drogatz, P A ^a,b   Ruberg S ^a   Becker, A ^a   Puhler A ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Exopolysaccharide biosynthesis; Regulation of gene expression; Rhizobium meliloti

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BIOSYNTHESIS; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA FLANKING REGION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEAT SHOCK; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; HEAT; HOMEOSTASIS; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0030911806     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050448     Document Type: Article

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