Quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) analysis of aromatic effector specificity in NtrC-like transcriptional activators from aromatic oxidizing bacteria

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 45-52

  Park, Joonhong ^a   Malinverni, Juliana ^b   Adriaens, Peter ^c   Kukor, Jerome J ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatic monooxygenase pathway; Bacterial NtrC like transcriptional activator; Quantitative structure activity relationship; Toluene oxidizing bacterium; Trichloroethylene cometabolism

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DMPR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NTRC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR XYLR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA PICKETTII; STEREOSPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RALSTONIA; RALSTONIA PICKETTII;

EID: 0037632601     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00400-2     Document Type: Article

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