Functional domains of the TOL plasmid transcription factor XylS

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1118-1126

  Kaldalu, Niilo ^a   Toots, Urve ^a   De Lorenzo, Victor ^b   Ustav, Mart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CYTARABINE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BENZOATES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLASMIDS; PRECIPITIN TESTS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 0033967976     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.4.1118-1126.2000     Document Type: Article

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