Regulation of a novel Acidithiobacillus caldus gene cluster involved in metabolism of reduced inorganic sulfur compounds

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 7367-7372

  Rzhepishevska, Olena I ^a   Valdés, Jorge ^b   Marcinkeviciene, Liucija ^c   Gallardo, Camelia Algora ^a   Meskys, Rolandas ^c   Bonnefoy, Violaine ^d   Holmes, David S ^b   Dopson, Mark ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; GENE CLUSTERS; REDUCED INORGANIC SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TETRATHIONATE HYDROLASES; TETRATHIONATE OXIDATION;

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; OXIDATION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

GENES;

GENE PRODUCT; MINERAL; PYRITE; PYRROLE DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE; QUINONE DERIVATIVE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TETRATHIONATE HYDROLASE; TETRATHIONIC ACID; THIOSULFATE; TRANSPOSASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIUM; BIOINFORMATICS; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; INORGANIC COMPOUND; METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFUR COMPOUND;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOXD GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MAPPING; ISAC1 GENE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RSRR GENE; RSRS GENE; TETH GENE; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROLASES; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TETRATHIONIC ACID; THIOSULFATES;

ACIDITHIOBACILLUS CALDUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 36649016031     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01497-07     Document Type: Article

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