A new member of the Escherichia coli fad regulon: Transcriptional regulation of fadM (ybaW)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 191, Issue 20, 2009, Pages 6320-6328

  Feng, Youjun ^a   Cronan, John E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CYCLIC AMP; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; LINOLEIC ACID; OLEOYL COENZYME A; PALMITOLEOYL COENZYME A; PALMITOYL COENZYME A; THIOESTER; THIOL ESTER HYDROLASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; CARBON SOURCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FADM GENE; FATTY ACID OXIDATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 70350456093     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00835-09     Document Type: Article

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