amfR, an essential gene for aerial mycelium formation, is a member of the AdpA regulon in the A-factor regulatory cascade in Streptomyces griseus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1173-1187

  Yamazaki, Haruka ^a,b   Takano, Yuji ^a   Ohnishi, Yasuo ^a   Horinouchi, Sueharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADPA TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATOR; GENE PRODUCT; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMFR GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CODON; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCELIAL GROWTH; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GROWTH SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; MYCELIUM; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES GRISEUS; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 0344395007     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03760.x     Document Type: Article

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