Winged Helix Transcription Factor CPCR1 Is Involved in Regulation of β-Lactam Biosynthesis in the Fungus Acremonium chrysogenum

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 121-134

  Schmitt, Esther K ^a,b   Bunse, Astrid ^a   Janus, Danielle ^a   Hoff, Birgit ^a   Friedlin, Ernst ^b   Kürnsteiner, Hubert ^b   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADICILLIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA LACTAM; CEPHALOSPORIN C; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CPCR1 PROTEIN, ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PEPTIDE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACREMONIUM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMISTRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMID; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TIME; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACREMONIUM; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BETA-LACTAMS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MEMBRANE; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PENICILLINS; PEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ACREMONIUM CHRYSOGENUM; ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 1242322491     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.3.1.121-134.2004     Document Type: Article

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