Regulation of the Escherichia coli allantoin regulon: Coordinated function of the repressor AllR and the activator AllS

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 324, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 599-610

  Rintoul, Maria R ^a   Cusa, Eva ^a   Baldomà, Laura ^a   Badia, Josefa ^a   Reitzer, Larry ^b   Aguilar, Juan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Allantoin; Gene function assignment; LysR family; Nitrogen assimilation; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

ALLANTOIN; DNA FRAGMENT; GENE PRODUCT; GLYOXYLIC ACID; NITROGEN; RNA POLYMERASE; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC STRAIN; INVERTED REPEAT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036923450     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01134-8     Document Type: Article

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