Novel regulatory cascades controlling expression of nitrogen-fixation genes in Geobacter sulfurreducens

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 38, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 7485-7499

  Ueki, Toshiyuki ^a   Lovley, Derek R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GEOBACTER; NITROGEN FIXATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

GEOBACTER SP.; GEOBACTER SULFURREDUCENS;

EID: 78649809538     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq652     Document Type: Article

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