Sites internal to the coding regions of phoA and pstS bind PhoP and are required for full promoter activity

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 119-130

  Liu, Wei ^a   Qi, Ying ^a   Hulett, F Marion ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BINDING SITE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STARVATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; PHOSPHATE-BINDING PROTEINS; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031898938     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00779.x     Document Type: Article

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