Treponema denticola TroR is a manganese- and iron-dependent transcriptional repressor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 396-409

  Brett, Paul J ^a   Burtnick, Mary N ^a   Fenno, J Christopher ^b   Gherardini, Frank C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; MANGANESE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR PROTEIN TROR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOMEOSTASIS AND REGULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE ORDER; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; IRON; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPIROCHAETA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

EID: 52649116664     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06418.x     Document Type: Article

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