Negative transcriptional regulation of a positive regulator: The expression of malT, encoding the transcriptional activator of the maltose regulon of Escherichia coli, is negatively controlled by Mlc

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 381-390

  Decker, Katja ^a   Plumbridge, Jacqueline ^b   Boos, Winfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b INST DE BIOLOGIE PHYSICO CHIMIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; MALTODEXTRIN; MALTOSE;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SUGAR TRANSPORT;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYSTATHIONINE GAMMA-LYASE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOMEOSTASIS; KANAMYCIN RESISTANCE; MALTOSE; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; TRIXIS;

EID: 0031983641     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00694.x     Document Type: Article

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