Molecular mechanism of YbtA-mediated transcriptional regulation of divergent overlapping promoters ybtA and irp6 of Yersinia enterocolitica

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-32

  Anisimov, Roman ^a   Brem, Daniela ^a   Heesemann, Jürgen ^a   Rakin, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gene regulation; Overlapping promoters; Ybta binding sites; Yersiniae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRP6 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YBTA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY ISLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC ISLANDS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOLS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE DELETION; SIDEROPHORES; THIAZOLES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 23744467916     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2005.06.040     Document Type: Article

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