Two roles for the leucine-responsive regulatory protein in expression of the alanine catabolic operon (dadAB) in Klebsiella aerogenes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1054-1058

  Janes, Brian K ^a   Bender, Robert A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032891453     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.3.1054-1058.1999     Document Type: Article

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