Heavy involvement of stringent transcription control depending on the adenine or guanine species of the transcription initiation site in glucose and pyruvate metabolism in Bacillus subtilis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 192, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1573-1585

  Tojo, Shigeo ^a   Kumamoto, Kanako ^a   Hirooka, Kazutake ^a   Fujita, Yasutaro ^a  

^a FUKUYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETOIN; ADENINE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; GLUCOSE; GUANINE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PURINE; PYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; PYRUVATE DEHYDROGENASE COMPLEX; PYRUVIC ACID; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ALSD GENE; ALSS GENE; AMINO ACID SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PDHA GENE; PDHB GENE; PDHC GENE; PDHD GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PTSG GENE; PTSH GENE; PTSI GENE; PYCA GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ADENINE; ADENOSINE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; GUANINE; OPERON; PYRUVIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 77949388193     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01394-09     Document Type: Article

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