The Bacillus subtilis transition state regulator AbrB binds to the -35 promoter region of comK

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 218, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 299-304

  Hamoen, Leendert W ^a,d   Kausche, Daisy ^b   Marahiel, Mohamed A ^b   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,e   Venema, Gerard ^a   Serror, Pascale ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

AbrB; CodY; ComK; Competence; DegU; Rok

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; OCTODON DEGUS;

EID: 0037469257     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(02)01172-2     Document Type: Article

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