Genome-wide analysis of the RpoN regulon in Geobacter sulfurreducens

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Leang, Ching ^a   Krushkal, Julia ^b   Ueki, Toshiyuki ^a   Puljic, Marko ^b   Sun, Jun ^c   Juárez, Katy ^a,d   Núñez, Cinthia ^a,d   Reguera, Gemma ^e   DiDonato, Raymond ^a   Postier, Bradley ^f   Adkins, Ronald M ^b   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c GENOMATICA INC   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^e Michigan State University   (United States)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME; FERROUS ION; FUMARIC ACID; PROTEIN DCUB; PROTEIN FDNG; PROTEIN FLIL; PROTEIN GLNB; PROTEIN NIFEN; PROTEIN PILA; SIGMA FACTOR RPON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYME METABOLISM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCEN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

GEOBACTER SP.; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GEOBACTER; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54;

EID: 68849107920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-331     Document Type: Article

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