Conserved response regulator CtrA and IHF binding sites in the α-proteobacteria Caulobacter crescentus and Rickettsia prowazekii chromosomal replication origins

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 5789-5799

  Brassinga, Ann Karen C ^a   Siam, Rania ^a   McSween, William ^a   Winkler, Herbert ^a   Wood, David ^a   Marczynski, Gregory T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTRA; PROTEIN CZCR; PROTEIN IHF; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPLICATION ORIGIN; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA PROWAZEKII; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0036786306     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.20.5789-5799.2002     Document Type: Article

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