Negative regulation of the pts operon by Mlc: Mechanism underlying glucose induction in Escherichia coli

Genes to Cells

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 391-399

  Tanaka, Yuya ^a   Kimata, Keiko ^a   Inada, Toshifumi ^a   Tagami, Hideaki ^a   Aiba, Hiroji ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MUTATION; OPERON; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0032774602     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2443.1999.00268.x     Document Type: Article

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