ZntR is a Zn(II)-responsive MerR-like transcriptional regulator of zntA in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 893-902

  Brocklehurst, Kathryn R ^a   Hobman, Jon L ^b   Lawley, Blair ^a   Blank, Lindsay ^b   Marshall, Samantha J ^a   Brown, Nigel L ^b   Morby, Andrew P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYBRID PROTEIN; SPACER DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OPERATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, REGULATOR; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032926864     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01229.x     Document Type: Article

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