A regulatory protein-protein interaction governs glutamate biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis: The glutamate dehydrogenase RocG moonlights in controlling the transcription factor GltC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 642-654

  Commichau, Fabian M ^a   Herzberg, Christina ^a   Tripal, Philipp ^b   Valerius, Oliver ^a   Stülke, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; ARGININE; CARBON; GLUCOSE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMATE SYNTHASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 34447569343     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.05816.x     Document Type: Article

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