CodY activates transcription of a small RNA in Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5446-5457

  Preis, Heike ^a   Eckart, Rita A ^a   Gudipati, Rajani K ^a,b   Heidrich, Nadja ^a,c   Brantl, Sabine ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PROTEIN BSRF; PROTEIN CODY; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; SPACER DNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; GENE DELETION; GENE FUSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 68949130109     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00602-09     Document Type: Article

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