Antagonistic control of the Escherichia coli bgl promoter by FIS and CAP in vitro

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 85-92

  Caramel, Angela ^a   Schnetz, Karin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; CYCLIC AMP; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FACTOR FOR INVERSION STIMULATION PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GLUCOSIDES; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0034085279     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01827.x     Document Type: Article

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