Positively regulated expression of the Escherichia coli araBAD promoter in Corynebacterium glutamicum

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 125-130

  Ben Samoun, Karine ^a   Leblon, Gérard ^a   Reyes, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

AraC; Corynebacterium glutamicum; RNA polymerase

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; BACTERIAL ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ALDOSE-KETOSE ISOMERASES; ARABINOSE; ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE EPIMERASES; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC ENGINEERING; OPERON; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES (ALCOHOL GROUP ACCEPTOR); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032901622     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00129-9     Document Type: Article

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