CmtR, a cadmium-sensing ArsR-SmtB repressor, cooperatively interacts with multiple operator sites to autorepress its transcription in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

FEBS Journal

Volumn 276, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 3428-3439

  Chauhan, Santosh ^a   Kumar, Anil ^a   Singhal, Amit ^a   Tyagi, Jaya Sivaswami ^a   Prasad, H Krishna ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

ArsR SmtB repressor; Autoregulation; CmtR; Metalloregulatory repressors; Rv1994c

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CADMIUM; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; OLIGOMER; PROTEIN CMTR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AT RICH SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; CODON; CROSS LINKING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CADMIUM; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 67650457613     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07066.x     Document Type: Article

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