HbpR, a new member of the Xylr/DmpR subclass within the NtrC family of bacterial transcriptional activators, regulates expression of 2- hydroxybiphenyl metabolism in Pseudomonas azelaica HBP1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 405-417

  Jaspers, Marco C M ^a   Suske, Winfried A ^a   Schmid, Andreas ^b   Goslings, David A M ^a   Kohler, Hans Peter E ^a   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AZELAICA; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIPHENYL COMPOUNDS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOLS; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PSEUDOMONAS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0033986392     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.2.405-417.2000     Document Type: Article

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