GntR family of regulators in Mycobacterium smegmatis: A sequence and structure based characterization

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vindal, Vaibhav ^a   Suma, Katta ^a   Ranjan, Akash ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR DNA FINGERPRINTING AND DIAGNOSTICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN FADR; PROTEIN GNTR; PROTEIN HUTC; PROTEIN MOCR; PROTEIN YTRA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FADR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; ORTHOLOGY; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PHYLOGENY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 35748947762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-289     Document Type: Article

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