The LicT protein acts as both a positive and a negative regulator of loci within the bgl regulon of Streptococcus mutans

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1333-1340

  Cote, Christopher K ^a   Honeyman, Allen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ESCULIN; GENOMIC DNA; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSIDE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN LICT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULON; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; ESCULIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; GLUCOSIDES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE SUGAR PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE SYSTEM; REGULON; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; INSERTION SEQUENCES; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0038191150     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26067-0     Document Type: Review

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