CtrA, a global response regulator, uses a distinct second category of weak DNA binding sites for cell cycle transcription control in Caulobacter crescentus

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 5458-5470

  Spencer, William ^a,b   Siam, Rania ^a,c   Ouimet, Marie Claude ^a   Bastedo, D Patrick ^a   Marczynski, Gregory T ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN CTRA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CROSS LINKING; DIMERIZATION; DNA BINDING; DNA FOOTPRINTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CELL CYCLE; DIMERIZATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

EID: 68949150880     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00355-09     Document Type: Article

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