Promoters from a cold-adapted bacterium: Definition of a consensus motif and molecular characterization of UP regulative elements

Extremophiles

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 125-132

  Duilio, Angela ^a   Madonna, Stefania ^a   Tutino, Maria Luisa ^a   Pirozzi, Marinella ^a   Sannia, Giovanni ^a   Marino, Gennaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptation to cold; Promoter consensus sequence; Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis; Psychrophilic bacteria; UP regulative sequence

Indexed keywords

NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS HALOPLANKTIS;

ADAPTATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COLD; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COLD; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 16544384962     PISSN: 14310651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00792-003-0371-2     Document Type: Article

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