A new target for an old regulator: H-NS represses transcription of bolA morphogene by direct binding to both promoters

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 411, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-55

  Moreira, Ricardo N ^a   Dressaire, Clémentine ^a   Domingues, Susana ^a   Arraiano, Cecília M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

s Regulated gene; BolA; DNA binding; H NS; Stress conditions; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BOLA MORPHOGENE; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 79960563164     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2011.06.084     Document Type: Article

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