Positive co-regulation of the Escherichia coli carnitine pathway cai and fix operons by CRP and the CaiF activator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 562-575

  Buchet, Anne ^a,b   Nasser, William ^a   Eichler, Knut ^a,c   Mandrand Berthelot, Marie Andrée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b EUROPEAN PATENT OFFICE   (Germany)

^c BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARNITINE; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARNITINE; CARRIER PROTEINS; COLICINS; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032723824     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01622.x     Document Type: Article

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