Isolation of a new hemimethylated DNA binding protein which regulates dnaA gene expression

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2967-2971

  D'Alençon, Emmanuelle ^a,b   Taghbalout, Aziz ^a   Bristow, Claire ^a   Kern, Renée ^a   Aflalo, Revital ^a   Kohiyama, Masamichi ^a  

^a INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; DNAA GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN ISOLATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0242417417     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.9.2967-2971.2003     Document Type: Article

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