Search for additional targets of the transcriptional regulator CcpN from bacillus subtilis

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 299, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 223-231

  Eckart, Rita A ^a   Brantl, Sabine ^a   Licht, Andreas ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment; Carbon catabolite repression; CcpN; Footprinting; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN CCPN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE FUSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENOME; GLUCONEOGENESIS; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REPORTER GENE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 70349251718     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2009.01754.x     Document Type: Article

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