Rem, a new transcriptional activator of motility and chemotaxis in Sinorhizobium meliloti

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 188, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6932-6942

  Rotter, Christine ^a   Mühlbacher, Susanne ^a   Salamon, Daniel ^b   Schmitt, Rüdiger ^a   Scharf, Birgit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN REGULATOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR REM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FLGB GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; MOTOR DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; REM GENE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SWIMMING; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VISN GENE; VISR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CHEMOTAXIS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 33749339247     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01902-05     Document Type: Article

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