Attenuation regulation of amino acid biosynthetic operons in proteobacteria: Comparative genomics analysis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 357-370

  Vitreschak, Alexey G ^a   Lyubetskaya, Elena V ^a   Shirshin, Maxim A ^a   Gelfand, Mikhail S ^a,b   Lyubetsky, Vassily A ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

^b STATE RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND SELECTION OF INDUSTRIAL MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^c Institute of Strategic Stability   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Aromatic amino acids; Attenuation; Branched chain amino acids; Histidine; Regulation of gene expression; Threonine

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ASPARTATE KINASE; HISTIDINE; HOMOSERINE DEHYDROGENASE; ISOLEUCINE; PHENYLALANINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN;

ALTEROMONADACEAE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CAULOBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMICS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PASTEURELLA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHODOBACTER; RHODOSPIRILLUM; RICKETTSIA; SPHINGOMONAS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; VIBRIONACEAE;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTEROIDETES; CHLOROBI; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; LACTOCOCCUS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; PASTEURELLALES; POSIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; THERMOTOGALES;

EID: 2342475660     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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