Identification of the Ω4499 regulatory region controlling developmental expression of a Myxococcus xanthus cytochrome P-450 system

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 5467-5475

  Fisseha, Makda ^a,c   Biran, Dvora ^b,c   Kroos, Lee ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; CYTOCHROME P450; GENE PRODUCT; BACTERIAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CELL INTERACTION; CHROMOSOME; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE LOCUS; MYXOCOCCALES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATOR GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSPOSON; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LACTOSE OPERON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOCHROME P-450 ENZYME SYSTEM; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032589155     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.17.5467-5475.1999     Document Type: Article

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