Anaerobic regulation of the Escherichia coil dmsABC operon requires the molybdate-responsive regulator ModE

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 197-208

  McNicholas, Paul M ^a   Chiang, Robin C ^a   Gunsalus, Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDIC ACID; OXIDOREDUCTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GALACTOSIDASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLYBDENUM; NITRATES; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0031962823     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00675.x     Document Type: Article

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