The two-component regulatory system senX3-regX3 regulates phosphate-dependent gene expression in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 189, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 5495-5503

  Glover, Robert T ^a   Kriakov, Jordan ^a   Garforth, Scott J ^a   Baughn, Anthony D ^a   Jacobs Jr , William R ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN HISTIDINE KINASE; PROTEIN PHOA; PROTEIN REGX3; PROTEIN SENX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTANT; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHOA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSTS GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGX3 GENE; SENSOR; SENX3 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION, MISSENSE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHOSPHATES; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 34547618274     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00190-07     Document Type: Article

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