Transcription activation at the Escherichia coli melAB promoter: The role of MelR and the cyclic AMP receptor protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 211-222

  Belyaeva, Tamara A ^a   Wade, Joseph T ^a   Webster, Christine L ^a   Howard, Victoria J ^a   Thomas, Mark S ^b   Hyde, Eva I ^a   Busby, Stephen J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; MELIBIOSE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MELIBIOSE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SYMPORTERS; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034035345     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01849.x     Document Type: Article

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