Bacillus subtilis SalA (YbaL) Negatively Regulates Expression of scoC, Which Encodes the Repressor for the Alkaline Exoprotease Gene, aprE

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3056-3064

  Ogura, Mitsuo ^a   Matsuzawa, Atsushi ^a   Yoshikawa, Hirofumi ^b   Tanaka, Teruo ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PROTEINASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; EXOPEPTIDASE; GENE PRODUCT; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN APRE; PROTEIN SALA; PROTEIN SCOC; PROTEIN YBAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ARCHAEA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 2342659731     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.10.3056-3064.2004     Document Type: Article

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