Nitrate-responsive NarX-NarL represses arginine-mediated induction of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa arginine fermentation arcDABC operon

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3053-3060

  Benkert, Beatrice ^a   Quäck, Nicole ^a   Schreiber, Kerstin ^a   Jaensch, Lothar ^b   Jahn, Dieter ^a   Schobert, Max ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; NITRATE; PROTEIN NARL; PROTEIN NARX; PROTEOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; ANTIPORTER; ARCD PROTEIN, BACTERIA; ARGR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

AEROBIC FERMENTATION; ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE FUSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPERON; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPORTER GENE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; BACTERIAL GENE; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM;

PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; ANAEROBIOSIS; ANTIPORTERS; ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; FERMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NITRATES; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEOME; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 55549146817     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/018929-0     Document Type: Article

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