Organization and transcriptional regulation of myo-inositol operon in Clostridium perfringens

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 235, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 289-295

  Kawsar, Hameem I ^a   Ohtani, Kaori ^b   Okumura, Kayo ^a   Hayashi, Hideo ^a   Shimizu, Tohru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clostridium perfringens; myo Inositol operon; Transcriptional regulation; Two component system

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; INOSITOL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ENERGY YIELD; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INOSITOL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENS;

EID: 2942553716     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.04.047     Document Type: Article

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