Activation of the toluene-responsive regulator XylR causes a transcriptional switch between σ54 and σ70 promoters at the divergent Pr/Ps region of the TOL plasmid

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 651-659

  Bertoni, Giovanni ^a   Marqués, Silvia ^b   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGMA FACTOR; TOLUENE;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA TEMPLATE; DOWN REGULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BENZYL ALCOHOL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TOLUENE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0031973699     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00715.x     Document Type: Article

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