Regulation of lysine biosynthesis and transport genes in bacteria: Yet another RNA riboswitch?

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 6748-6757

  Rodionov, Dmitry A ^a   Vitreschak, Alexey G ^b   Mironov, Andrey A ^a   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^a  

^a STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; COBALAMIN; LYSINE; METHIONINE; PURINE; RIBOFLAVIN; RNA; THIAMINE;

AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSLATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOTOGALES;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; LYSINE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; REGULON; RNA, BACTERIAL;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 0345531094     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg900     Document Type: Article

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