Probing flagellar promoter occupancy in wild-type and mutant Caulobacter crescentus by chromatin immunoprecipitation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 146-152

  Davis, Nicole J ^a,b   Viollier, Patrick H ^a,c  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

FlbD; FliX; QChIP; TipF; TipN; Transcription

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CTRA PROTEIN; CYCLIC GMP PHOSPHODIESTERASE; FLBD PROTEIN; FLIX PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; TIPF PROTEIN; TIPN PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CTRA GENE; FLBD GENE; FLIX GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATOR GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TIPF GENE; TIPN GENE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CAULOBACTER CRESCENTUS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLAGELLA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAULOBACTER VIBRIOIDES;

EID: 79956068794     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2011.02275.x     Document Type: Article

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