The essential role of the promoter-proximal subunit of CAP in pap phase variation: Lrp- and helical phase-dependent activation of papBA transcription by CAP from - 215

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1504-1522

  Weyand, Nathan J ^a,b   Braaten, Bruce A ^a,b   Van Woude, Marjan Der ^a,b   Tucker, Julie ^a   Low, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; HISTONE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSACTIVATION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; LEUCINE-RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN SUBUNITS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035061330     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02338.x     Document Type: Article

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