Fur is involved in manganese-dependent regulation of mntA (sitA) expression in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 4349-4355

  Platero, Raúl ^a   Peixoto, Lucía ^b,d   O'Brian, Mark R ^c   Fabiano, Elena ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; GENES; IRON; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

FUR STRAIN; MANGANESE DEPENDENT REGULATION;

MANGANESE;

GENE PRODUCT; IRON; MANGANESE; NITROGEN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN MNTA; SIDEROPHORE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; FUR GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IRON TRANSPORT; MNTA GENE; MUTANT; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; REPORTER GENE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SITA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MANGANESE; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SIDEROPHORES; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; SINORHIZOBIUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; UNCULTURED ALPHA PROTEOBACTERIUM;

EID: 3242774756     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.7.4349-4355.2004     Document Type: Article

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