Phylogeny of the bacterial superfamily of Crp-Fnr transcription regulators: Exploiting the metabolic spectrum by controlling alternative gene programs

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 559-592

  Körner, Heinz ^a   Sofia, Heidi J ^b   Zumft, Walter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cyclic adenosine monophosphate; Helix turn helix; Phylogeny; Regulation of transcription; Superfamily

Indexed keywords

2 OXOGLUTARIC ACID; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; CYCLIC AMP; HEMOPROTEIN; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ALLOSTERISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANOXIA; AROMATIZATION; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM COLONY; CATABOLISM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SWITCHING; GENE TARGETING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROSATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOGENICITY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0344153756     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6445(03)00066-4     Document Type: Review

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