The iron dependent regulatory protein IdeR (DtxR) of Rhodococcus equi

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-5

  Boland, Clara A ^a   Meijer, Wim G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DtxR; GalE; IdeR; Iron repressor; Rhodococcus equi

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; IRON DEPENDENT REGULATORY PROTEIN IDER; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URIDINE DIPHOSPHATE GLUCOSE 4 EPIMERASE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RHODOCOCCUS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RHODOCOCCUS EQUI; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS;

EID: 0034307852     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00354-2     Document Type: Article

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