Binding site determinants for the LysR-type transcriptional regulator PcaQ in the legume endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1237-1246

  MacLean, Allyson M ^a   Anstey, Michelle I ^a   Finan, Turlough M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 OXOADIPIC ACID; ADIPIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PROTEIN PCAQ; PROTOCATECHUIC ACID; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; DISSOCIATION CONSTANT; ENDOSYMBIONT; GENE EXPRESSION; LEGUME; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FABACEAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 38949158464     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01456-07     Document Type: Article

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