The ChiA (YheB) protein of Escherichia coli K-12 is an endochitinase whose gene is negatively controlled by the nucleoid-structuring protein H-NS

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1506-1517

  Francetic̃, Olivera ^a   Badaut, Cyril ^b   Rimsky, Sylvie ^b   Pugsley, Anthony P ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHITINASE; GENE PRODUCT; LYSOZYME; REGULATOR PROTEIN; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI K 12; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOSE OPERON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CHITINASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SUBCELLULAR FRACTIONS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034022339     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01817.x     Document Type: Article

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