ZntR is an autoregulatory protein and negatively regulates the chromosomal zinc resistance operon znt of Staphylococcus aureus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 200-207

  Singh, Vineet K ^a   Xiong, Anming ^a   Usgaard, Thomas R ^a   Chakrabarti, Swarup ^b   Deora, Rajendar ^b   Misra, Tapan K ^b   Jayaswal, Radheshyam K ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; COBALT; ENTEROPEPTIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NICKEL; RNA POLYMERASE; ZINC;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; CHROMOSOME; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; COBALT; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 0033009421     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01466.x     Document Type: Article

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