Two roles for integration host factor at an enhancer-dependent nifA promoter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 756-764

  Wassem, Roseli ^a   De Souza, Emanuel Maltempi ^a   Yates, Marshall Geoffrey ^a   De Oliveira Pedrosa, Fábio ^a   Buck, Martin ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; NITROGEN; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENHANCER REGION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDES; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HERBASPIRILLUM SEROPEDICAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033962961     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01746.x     Document Type: Article

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