Integration host factor affects the oxygen-regulated expression of photosynthesis genes in Rhodobacter capsulatus

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 258, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 297-305

  Kirndorfer M ^a   Jager A ^a   Klug, G ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial photosynthesis; Integration host factor; Oxygen regulation; Rhodobacter capsulants; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; OXYGEN; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OXYGEN TENSION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER CAPSULATUS; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0031841913     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050734     Document Type: Article

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