Influence of homologous phasins (PhaP) on PHA accumulation and regulation of their expression by the transcriptional repressor PhaR in Ralstonia eutropha H16

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 825-833

  Pötter, Markus ^a   Müller, Helena ^a   Steinbüchel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MICROORGANISM PROTEIN; PHASIN; PHASIN 1; PHASIN 2; PHASIN 3; PHASIN 4; POLYHYDROXYALKANOIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CUPRIAVIDUS NECATOR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLYESTERS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

RALSTONIA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

EID: 15844385953     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27613-0     Document Type: Article

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