Differential regulation of high-affinity phosphate transport systems of Mycobacterium smegmatis: Identification of PhnF, a repressor of the phnDCE operon

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1335-1343

  Gebhard, Susanne ^a   Cook, Gregory M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHNF GENE; PHOSPHATE TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; OPERON; PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS;

EID: 38949184271     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01764-07     Document Type: Article

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