HxlR, a member of the DUF24 protein family, is a DNA-binding protein that acts as a positive regulator of the formaldehyde-inducible hxlAB operon in Bacillus subtilis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 511-519

  Yurimoto, Hiroya ^a   Hirai, Reiko ^a   Matsuno, Norimichi ^a   Yasueda, Hisashi ^b   Kato, Nobuo ^a   Sakai, Yasuyoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AJINOMOTO CO INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DIMER; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DUF24 PROTEIN; FORMALDEHYDE; HXIR PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HXIAB GENE; HXIR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

ALDEHYDE-LYASES; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FORMALDEHYDE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE-6-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 22144480660     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04702.x     Document Type: Article

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