A small protein from the bop-brp intergenic region of Halobacterium salinarum contains a zinc finger motif and regulates bop and crtB1 transcription

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 772-780

  Tarasov, Valery Y ^a   Besir, Hüseyin ^a,b   Schwaiger, Rita ^a   Klee, Kathrin ^a   Furtwängler, Katarina ^a   Pfeiffer, Friedhelm ^a   Oesterhelt, Dieter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIORHODOPSIN REGULATING ZINC FINGER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN CRTB1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE DELETION; GENETIC CODE; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ZINC FINGER MOTIF;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BACTERIORHODOPSINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC FINGERS;

HALOBACTERIUM SALINARUM;

EID: 38449105695     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2007.06081.x     Document Type: Article

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