Phosphorylation of either Crh or HPr mediates binding of CcpA to the Bacillus subtilis xyn cre and catabolite repression of the xyn operon

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 307-314

  Galinier, Anne ^a   Deutscher, Josef ^b   Martin Verstraete, Isabelle ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE BIOLOGIE ET CHIMIE DES PROTÉINES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Carbon catabolite repression; Catabolite repression HPr; DNase I footprinting; PEP:carbohydrate phosphotransferase system; Xylan metabolism

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FRUCTOSE 1,6 BISPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; SERINE; XYLAN; XYLAN 1,4 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 0033582597     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2492     Document Type: Article

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