The Rhizobium sp. BR816 nodD3 gene is regulated by a transcriptional regulator of the AraC/XylS family

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 558-561

  Vlassak, K M ^a   De Wilde, P ^a   Snoeck, C ^a   Luyten, E ^a   Van Rhijn, P ^a   Vanderleyden, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

AraC; Rhizobium; Symbiosis; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; RHIZOBIUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCURONIDASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RHIZOBIUM; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.;

EID: 0031821998     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050768     Document Type: Article

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