The high-mobility group A-type protein CarD of the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus as a transcription factor for several distinct vegetative genes

Genetics

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1585-1595

  Galbis Martínez, Marisa ^a,b   Fontes, Marta ^a   Murillo, Francisco J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CAROTENOID; GENE PRODUCT; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN CARD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARD GENE; CARD1 GENE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FRUITING BODY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STARVATION; SUD2 GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; MYXOCOCCALES; MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 4644273704     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.029207     Document Type: Article

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