The putative regulator of catechol catabolism in Rhodococcus opacus 1CP - An IclR-type, not a LysR-type transcriptional regulator

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 71-82

  Eulberg, Dirk ^a   Schlömann, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catechol metabolism; Rhodococcus opacus; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL; CATECHOL 1,2 DIOXYGENASE; DNA FRAGMENT; LYSINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLISM; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATECHOL 1,2-DIOXYGENASE; CATECHOLS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DIOXYGENASES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXYGENASES; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032460513     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001755928637     Document Type: Article

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