FadR, transcriptional co-ordination of metabolic expediency

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 937-943

  Cronan Jr , John E ^a   Subrahmanyam, Satyanarayana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; REPRESSOR GENE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ACETYL COENZYME A; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACIDS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDRO-LYASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031815062     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00917.x     Document Type: Review

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