Genes coding for phosphotransacetylase and acetate kinase in Sinorhizobium meliloti are in an operon that is inducible by phosphate stress and controlled by phoB

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 181, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 2217-2224

  Summers, Michael L ^a,b   Denton, Michael C ^a   Mcdermott, Timothy R ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHATE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; STARVATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0032962661     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.7.2217-2224.1999     Document Type: Article

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