Pseudomonas aeruginosa AlgZ, a ribbon-helix-helix DNA-binding protein, is essential for alginate synthesis and algD transcriptional activation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1069-1080

  Baynham, Patricia J ^a   Brown, Amy L ^a   Hall, Lisa L ^a   Wozniak, Daniel J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA BINDING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALGINATES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE DEHYDROGENASES; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0032882219     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01550.x     Document Type: Article

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