Isolation and analysis of xlnR, encoding a transcriptional activator co-ordinating xylanolytic expression in Aspergillus niger

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 131-142

  Van Peij, Noël N M E ^a   Visser, Jaap ^a   De Graaff, Leo H ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BINDING SITE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENE ISOLATION; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASPERGILLUS NIGER; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; XYLAN ENDO-1,3-BETA-XYLOSIDASE; XYLANS; XYLOSIDASES; ZINC FINGERS;

ASPERGILLUS NIGER; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PENICILLIUM; PENICILLIUM CHRYSOGENUM;

EID: 0031962771     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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