Repression of Acinetobacter vanillate demethylase synthesis by VanR, a member of the GntR family of transcriptional regulators

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 65-68

  Morawski, Birgit ^a   Segura, Ana ^a   Ornston, L Nicholas ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter sp.; Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction; VanAB repression; Vanillate demethylase

Indexed keywords

PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; VANILLIC ACID;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; DEMETHYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KNOCKOUT GENE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDOMONAS; REPRESSOR GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES, O-DEMETHYLATING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER SP.; ACINETOBACTER VANILLATE; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 0034212264     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00176-2     Document Type: Article

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