The P(alkBFGHJKL) promoter is under carbon catabolite repression control in Pseudomonas oleovorans but not in Escherichia coli alk+ recombinants

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1610-1616

  Staijen, Ivo E ^a   Marcionelli, Rosanna ^a   Witholt, Bernard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKANE; CARBON; DNA; OXYGENASE; RNA; ALKANE 1 MONOOXYGENASE; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CYTOCHROME P450; GLYCEROL; MIXED FUNCTION OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS OLEOVORANS; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME MAP; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; PLASMID; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS OLEOVORANS;

ALKANE 1-MONOOXYGENASE; ALKANES; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GLYCEROL; KINETICS; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0032587788     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.5.1610-1616.1999     Document Type: Article

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