Two acid-inducible promoters from Lactococcus lactis require the cis-acting ACiD-box and the transcription regulator RcfB

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 735-746

  Madsen, Søren M ^a   Hindré, Thomas ^b   Le Pennec, Jean Paul ^b   Israelsen, Hans ^a   Dufour, Alain ^b  

^a BIONEER A S   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CELL PROTEIN; CIS ACTING ACID BOX PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; LACTICIN; LANTIBIOTIC; PROTEIN GROESL; PROTEIN P1; PROTEIN P170; PROTEIN P3; PROTEIN RCFB; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 17644397319     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04572.x     Document Type: Article

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