Molybdate-dependent transcription of hyc and nar operons of Escherichia coli requires MoeA protein and ModE-molybdate

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-116

  Hasona, Adnan ^a   Self, William T ^a   Ray, Ramesh M ^a   Shanmugam, K T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Escherichia coli; Formate hydrogenlyase; ModE; MoeA; Molybdate; nar operon; Regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FORMATE DEHYDROGENASE; MOLYBDIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LYASES; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; OPERON; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SULFURTRANSFERASES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0031792568     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00471-6     Document Type: Article

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