Regulation of arginine biosynthesis in the psychropiezophilic bacterium Moritella profunda: In vivo repressibility and in vitro repressor-operator contact probing

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 353-369

  Xu, Ying ^a   Sun, Yuan ^a   Huysveld, Nadine ^a   Gigot, Daniel ^b   Glansdorff, Nicolas ^a,b   Charlier, Daniel ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arginine metabolism; Moritella profunda; Protein DNA contacts; Psychrophiles; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HELIX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEAT SENSITIVITY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MORITELLA PROFUNDA; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEOBACILLUS STEAROTHERMOPHILUS; MORITELLA; MORITELLA PROFUNDA; NEGIBACTERIA; THERMOTOGA; THERMOTOGA MARITIMA;

EID: 0037436334     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01375-X     Document Type: Article

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