LRP and H-NS - Cooperative partners for transcription regulation at Escherichia coli rRNA promoters

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 864-876

  Pul, Ümit ^a   Wurm, Reinhild ^a   Lux, Bianca ^a   Meltzer, Michael ^a   Menzel, Artur ^a   Wagner, Rolf ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; LEUCINE; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; RNA SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, RRNA; LEUCINE-RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; RRNA OPERON; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 27444437323     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04873.x     Document Type: Article

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