An extra-cytoplasmic function sigma factor and anti-sigma factor control carotenoid biosynthesis in Azospirillum brasilense

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2096-2105

  Thirunavukkarasu, Nagarajan ^a   Mishra, Mukti Nath ^a   Spaepen, Stijn ^b   Vanderleyden, Jos ^b   Gross, Carol A ^c   Tripathi, Anil K ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAROTENOID; PROTEIN CHRR; PROTEIN RPOE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE DELETION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; INHIBITION KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STOP CODON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAROTENOIDS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOPLASM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGMA FACTOR;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 51149098736     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/016428-0     Document Type: Article

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