The Streptomyces coelicolor GlnR regulon: Identification of new GlnR targets and evidence for a central role of GlnR in nitrogen metabolism in actinomycetes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 861-880

  Tiffert, Yvonne ^a   Supra, Petra ^a   Wurm, Reinhild ^b   Wohlleben, Wolfgang ^a   Wagner, Rolf ^b   Reuther, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER SUGAR BINDING PROTEIN; ADENYLYLTRANSFERASE; AMMONIA; AMMONIUM TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE I; GLUTAMINE SYNTHETASE II; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NADP SPECIFIC GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE; NADPH DEPENDENT FMN REDUCTASE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE LARGE SUBUNIT; PII PROTEIN; PROTEIN GDHA; PROTEIN GLNII; PROTEIN GLNR; PROTEIN NIRB; PROTEIN UREA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE GAMMA SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REDUCTION; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; UREA CYCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; REGULON; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); STREPTOMYCES; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 38449097896     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06092.x     Document Type: Article

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