Nutrient regime regulates complex transcriptional start site usage within a Pseudoalteromonas chitinase gene cluster

ISME Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1053-1063

  Delpin, Marina W ^a,b   Goodman, Amanda E ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

5' RACE; Chitinase; Marine bacterium; Regulation; Transcription; Transcriptional start point analysis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; CHITINASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE MEDIUM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHITINASE; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOALTEROMONAS; PSEUDOALTEROMONAS SP.;

EID: 70349456465     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2009.54     Document Type: Article

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