Regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa hemF and hemN by the dual action of the redox response regulators Anr and Dnr

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 985-997

  Rompf, Alexandra ^a,b,c   Hungerer, Christoph ^b,c   Hoffmann, Tamara ^a,b,c   Lindenmeyer, Maja ^a   Römling, Ute ^d   Groß, Ulrich ^e   Doss, Manfred O ^e   Arai, Hiroyuki ^f   Igarashi, Yasuo ^g   Jahn, Dieter ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Fachbereich Medizin der Universitat Marburg   (Germany)

^f INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPROPORPHYRINOGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AEROBIOSIS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COPROPORPHYRINOGEN OXIDASE; COPROPORPHYRINOGENS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 15144342710     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00980.x     Document Type: Article

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