The AraC/XylS family activator RhaS negatively autoregulates rhaSR expression by preventing cyclic AMP receptor protein activation

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 225-232

  Wickstrum, Jason R ^b   Skredenske, Jeff M ^a   Balasubramaniam, Vinitha ^a   Jones, Kyle ^a   Egan, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Kansas Health and Environmental Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAC PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CURVED DNA; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR; RHAMNOSE; RHAS PROTEIN; RHASR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE DELETION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 73849106705     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00829-08     Document Type: Article

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