PigZ, a TetR/AcrR family repressor, modulates secondary metabolism via the expression of a putative four-component resistance-nodulation-cell-division efflux pump, ZrpADBC, in Serratia sp. ATCC 39006

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 418-435

  Gristwood, Tamzin ^a   Fineran, Peter C ^a,b   Everson, Lee ^a   Salmond, George P C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEIN; PIGZ PROTEIN; ZRPA PROTEIN; ZRPADBC PROTEIN; ZRPD PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SERRATIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBAPENEMS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENZYMES; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE ORDER; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRODIGIOSIN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERRATIA; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; NEGIBACTERIA; SERRATIA SP. ATCC 39006; SUIDAE;

EID: 47249116171     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06291.x     Document Type: Article

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