Transposon mutations in the 5′ end of glnD, the gene for a nitrogen regulatory sensor, that suppress the osmosensitive phenotype caused by otsBA lesions in Escherichia coli

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 4218-4226

  Tøndervik, Anne ^a   Torgersen, Haakon R ^a,b   Botnmark, Hans K ^a,c   Strøm, Arne R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b MedProbe   (Norway)

^c Namsfogden i Oslo   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GLND; PROTEIN OTSBA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOSTERISM; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GLND GENE; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NITROGEN DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSPOSON;

ALLELES; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33744992000     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00513-05     Document Type: Article

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