Transcription factors CysB and SfnR constitute the hierarchical regulatory system for the sulfate starvation response in Pseudomonas putida

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 4521-4531

  Kouzuma, Atsushi ^a   Endoh, Takayuki ^a   Omori, Toshio ^b   Nojiri, Hideaki ^a   Yamane, Hisakazu ^a   Habe, Hiroshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b SHIBAURA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; MESSENGER RNA; SERINE DERIVATIVE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CYSB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SFNR;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SULFATES; SULFONES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 46049100383     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00217-08     Document Type: Article

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