Identification and characterization of EctR1, a new transcriptional regulator of the ectoine biosynthesis genes in the halotolerant methanotroph Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 410-417

  Mustakhimov, Ildar I ^a   Reshetnikov, Alexander S ^a   Glukhov, Anatoly S ^b   Khmelenina, Valentina N ^a   Kalyuzhnaya, Marina G ^c   Trotsenko, Yuri A ^a  

^a SKRYABIN INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECTOINE; ECTR1 PROTEIN; HISTONE; HOMODIMER; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION; METHANOTROPH; METHYLOMICROBIUM ALCALIPHILUM 20Z; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SALT TOLERANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACIDS, DIAMINO; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METHYLOCOCCACEAE; MUTATION; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHYLOBACTER ALCALIPHILUS;

EID: 73649123517     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00553-09     Document Type: Article

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