Transcriptional repression mediated by LysR-type regulator CatR bound at multiple binding sites

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2367-2372

  Chugani, Sudha A ^a   Parsek, Matthew R ^b   Chakrabarty, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0031969092     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.9.2367-2372.1998     Document Type: Article

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