Leucine-responsive regulatory protein-mediated repression of clp (encoding CS31A) expression by L-leucine and L-alanine in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1886-1894

  Crost, Cécile ^a,b   Garrivier, Annie ^a   Harel, Josée ^b   Martin, Christine ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ALANINE; AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CS31A PROTEIN; DNA; LEUCINE; LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLP REGULATORY REGION; DIARRHEA; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEPTICEMIA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ALANINE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENDOPEPTIDASE CLP; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; LEUCINE; LEUCINE-RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037336268     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.6.1886-1894.2003     Document Type: Article

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