Structural requirements for marbox function in transcriptional activation of mar/sox/rob regulon promoters in Escherichia coli: Sequence, orientation and spatial relationship to the core promoter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 431-441

  Martin, Robert G ^a   Gillette, William K ^a   Rhee, Sangkhee ^a   Rosner, Judah L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSION GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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

EID: 0032746803     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01599.x     Document Type: Article

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