The Zur regulon of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032

BMC Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schröder, Jasmin ^a   Jochmann, Nina ^a   Rodionov, Dmitry A ^b,c   Tauch, Andreas ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATION TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC UPTAKE REGULATOR PROTEIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM ATCC 13032;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZINC;

EID: 76949106554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-11-12     Document Type: Article

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