Activity of the Rhodopseudomonas palustris p-coumaroyl-homoserine lactone-responsive transcription factor RpaR

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2598-2607

  Hirakawa, Hidetada ^a   Oda, Yasuhiro ^a   Phattarasukol, Somsak ^a   Armour, Christopher D ^b,c   Castle, John C ^b,d   Raymond, Christopher K ^b,c   Lappala, Colin R ^a   Schaefer, Amy L ^a   Harwood, Caroline S ^a   Greenberg, E Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

^c NuGEN Technologies Inc   (United States)

^d Institute for Translational Oncology and Immunology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 COUMAROYL HOMOSERINE LACTONE; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DNA; HOMOSERINE; LACTONE; NUCLEASE S1; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RPAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

4-BUTYROLACTONE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; RHODOPSEUDOMONAS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

RHODOPSEUDOMONAS PALUSTRIS;

EID: 79956125755     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01479-10     Document Type: Article

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