A CysB-regulated and σ54-dependent regulator, SfnR, is essential for dimethyl sulfone metabolism of Pseudomonas putida strain DS1

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 991-1000

  Endoh, Takayuki ^a   Habe, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshida, Takako ^a   Nojiri, Hideaki ^a   Omori, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CYSTEINE; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; DIMETHYL SULFONE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; MESYLIC ACID; OXYGENASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (QUINONE); REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SULFATE; SULFUR; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSB PROTEIN, BACTERIA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; SULFONE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SULFATION AND DESULFURIZATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESSENTIAL GENE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSPOSON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CULTURE MEDIA; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGMA FACTOR; SULFATES; SULFONES; SULFUR;

EID: 0038752569     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26031-0     Document Type: Review

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