Bacterial transcriptional regulators for degradation pathways of aromatic compounds

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 474-500

  Tropel, David ^a   Van Der Meer, Jan Roelof ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUND; DNA; REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AIR; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; BINDING AFFINITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CATABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; DEGRADATION; DNA BINDING; ENVIRONMENT; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; LIQUID; MEASUREMENT; MICROORGANISM; MOLECULE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; POLLUTANT; PROCESS CONTROL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATOR GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 4544275675     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.68.3.474-500.2004     Document Type: Review

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