Purification and characterization of MerR, the regulator of the broad-spectrum mercury resistance genes in Streptomyces lividans 1326

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 154-162

  Rother, D ^a   Mattes, R ^a   Altenbuchner, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissociation constant; Footprinting; Gel mobility shift assay; Heavy metal resistance

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM SULFATE; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CHROMOSOME; CISTRON; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GEL FILTRATION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REPRESSOR GENE; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; STREPTOMYCES LIVIDANS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0032833996     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380051070     Document Type: Article

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