Identification and Functional Characterization of CbaR, a MarR-Like Modulator of the cbaABC-Encoded Chlorobenzoate Catabolism Pathway

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3530-3541

  Providenti, Miguel A ^a,b   Wyndham, R Campbell ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; 3-CHLOROBENZOIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CBAR PROTEIN, COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; CHLOROBENZOIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; MARR PROTEIN, E COLI; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROBENZOATES; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0035434341     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3530-3541.2001     Document Type: Article

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