Catabolite repression control of napF (periplasmic nitrate reductase) operon expression in Escherichia coli K-12

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 996-1005

  Stewart, Valley ^a   Bledsoe, Peggy J ^a,b   Chen, Li Ling ^a   Cai, Amie ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Mira Loma High School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN, E COLI; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; FNR PROTEIN, E COLI; IRON SULFUR PROTEIN; NAPF PROTEIN, E COLI; NARG PROTEIN, E COLI; NARP PROTEIN, E COLI;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CARBON SOURCE; CATABOLITE REPRESSION; CLONING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; NITRATE REDUCER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI K12; SHEWANELLA; SHEWANELLA ONEIDENSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARBON; CYCLIC AMP; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; OPERON; RECEPTORS, CYCLIC AMP;

EID: 63449141265     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00873-08     Document Type: Article

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