Transcriptional regulation of the citrate gene cluster of Enterococcus faecalis involves the GntR family transcriptional activator CitO

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 190, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 7419-7430

  Blancato, Víctor S ^a   Repizo, Guillermo D ^a   Suárez, Cristian A ^a   Magni, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ROSARIO   (Argentina)

^b Departamento de Microbiologia   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLYASE; CITRATE LYASE; LYASE; OXALOACETATE DECARBOXYLASE; PROTEIN CIT; PROTEIN CITD; PROTEIN CITE; PROTEIN CITF; PROTEIN GTNR; PROTEIN OADA; PROTEIN OADB; PROTEIN OADD; PROTEIN OADH; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INCUBATION TIME; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CITRATES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPERON; OXO-ACID-LYASES; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 55549095999     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01704-07     Document Type: Article

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