Characterization of a new LexA binding motif in the marine magnetotactic bacterium strain MC-1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 4471-4482

  Fernández de Henestrosa, Antonio R ^a,c   Cuñé, Jordi ^a   Mazón, Gerard ^a   Dubbels, Bradley L ^b   Bazylinski, Dennis A ^b   Barbé, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRO DE BIOLOGÍA MOLECULAR SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOPLANKTON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LEX A GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; RECA GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; UMUDC GENE; UVRA GENE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MAGNETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REGULON; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MAGNETOCOCCUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0037767507     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.15.4471-4482.2003     Document Type: Article

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