Genome-wide survey for PilR recognition sites of the metal-reducing prokaryote Geobacter sulfurreducens

Gene

Volumn 469, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 31-44

  Krushkal, Julia ^a   Juárez, Katy ^b   Barbe, Jose F ^a   Qu, Yanhua ^a   Andrade, Angel ^b   Puljic, Marko ^a   Adkins, Ronald M ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^c   Ueki, Toshiyuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding site; NifA; Operon; Pilin; Regulation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; PILIN; PROTEIN PILR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FERRIC ION; FIMBRIA PROTEIN; NIFA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSYNTHESIS; FLAGELLUM; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; MORAXELLA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PSEUDOMONAS; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL GENOME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GEOBACTER; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; GEOBACTERACEAE; PILA; PROKARYOTA; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 77957875162     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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