Sinorhizobium meliloti fur-like (Mur) protein binds a fur box-like sequence present in the mntA promoter in a manganese-responsive manner

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 4832-4838

  Platero, Raúl ^a   De Lorenzo, Víctor ^b   Garat, Beatriz ^c   Fabiano, Elena ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS CLEMENTE ESTABLE   (Uruguay)

^b CENTRO NACIONAL DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^c Facultad de Ciencias   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR (FUR); FOOTPRINTING; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

BINDING SITES; DATA ACQUISITION; DNA; GENES; MONOMERS; PROTEINS;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DIMER; MANGANESE; MONOMER; PALINDROMIC DNA; PROTEIN FUR; PROTEIN MUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DNA; ENZYME; GENE; MANGANESE; PROTEIN; RHIZOBACTERIUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; MNTA GENE; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 34547810826     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00686-07     Document Type: Article

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