The riboswitch regulates a thiamine pyrophosphate ABC transporter of the oral spirochete Treponema denticola

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 3912-3922

  Bian, Jiang ^a   Shen, Hongwu ^a   Tu, Youbin ^b   Yu, Aiming ^a   Li, Chunhao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; COCARBOXYLASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RIBOSWITCH; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; RIBOSWITCH; RNA, BACTERIAL; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHATE; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA; TREPONEMAL INFECTIONS;

SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 79960389593     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00386-11     Document Type: Article

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