QscR-mediated transcriptional activation of serine cycle genes in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 21, 2005, Pages 7511-7517

  Kalyuzhnaya, Marina G ^a   Lidstrom, Mary E ^a,b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN QSCR; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; FCH GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GLYA GENE; HPR GENE; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS AM1; MTDA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QSC1 GENE; QSC2 GENE; SGA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

5' FLANKING REGION; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FORMYLTETRAHYDROFOLATES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SERINE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); METHYLOBACTERIUM EXTORQUENS;

EID: 27144457373     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.21.7511-7517.2005     Document Type: Article

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