Cholesterol utilization in mycobacteria is controlled by two TetR-type transcriptional regulators: kstR and kstR2

Microbiology

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1362-1371

  Kendall, Sharon L ^a   Burgess, Philippa ^a   Balhana, Ricardo ^a   Withers, Mike ^a   Ten Bokum, Annemieke ^a   Lott, J Shaun ^b   Gao, Chen ^b   Uhia Castro, Iria ^c   Stoker, Neil G ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; KNOCKOUT GENE; KSTR GENE; KSTR2 GENE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHODOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CHOLESTEROL; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MYCOBACTERIUM; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RHODOCOCCUS;

EID: 77952370884     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.034538-0     Document Type: Article

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