NsrR targets in the Escherichia coli genome: New insights into DNA sequence requirements for binding and a role for NsrR in the regulation of motility

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 680-694

  Partridge, Jonathan D ^a   Bodenmiller, Diane M ^b,c   Humphrys, Michael S ^b,d   Spiro, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NSRR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; BIOFILM; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; UROPATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 70350144292     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2009.06799.x     Document Type: Article

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