Identification of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis GlnE promoter and its response to nitrogen availability

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2727-2734

  Pashley, Carey A ^a   Brown, Amanda C ^a   Robertson, Dina ^a   Parish, Tanya ^a  

^a Institute of Cell and Molecular Science   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; GLUTAMINE; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN GLNA2; PROTEIN GLNE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CISTRON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITROGEN AVAILABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; UPREGULATION;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NITROGEN; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); UP-REGULATION;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33748788240     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28942-0     Document Type: Article

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