Employment of a promoter-swapping technique shows that PhoU modulates the activity of the PstSCAB 2 ABC transporter in escherichia coli

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 573-582

  Rice, Christopher D ^a   Pollard, Jacob E ^a   Lewis, Zachery T ^a   McCleary, William R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTERS; E. COLI; GENETIC STUDIES; GROWTH DEFECTS; LOW LEVELS; NEGATIVE REGULATORS; TWO-COMPONENT REGULATORY SYSTEMS; TWO-COMPONENT SYSTEMS;

CONTROL SYSTEMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; STRAIN;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

BACTERIUM; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHATE;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, ESSENTIAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PHOSPHATES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 59649094128     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01046-08     Document Type: Article

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