Ss-LrpB, a transcriptional regulator from Sulfolobus solfataricus, regulates a gene cluster with a pyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase-encoding operon and permease genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 972-988

  Peeters, Eveline ^b   Albers, Sonja Verena ^a   Vassart, Amelia ^b   Driessen, Arnold J M ^c   Charlier, Daniel ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; PERMEASE; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS LEUCINE RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; GENES, ARCHAEAL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PYRUVATE SYNTHASE; RNA, ARCHAEAL; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFOLOBUS SOLFATARICUS;

EID: 60349112392     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2008.06578.x     Document Type: Article

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