Complex regulation of the global regulatory gene csrA: CsrA-mediated translational repression, transcription from five promoters by Eσ70 and EσS, and indirect transcriptional activation by CsrA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 689-704

  Yakhnin, Helen ^a   Yakhnin, Alexander V ^a   Baker, Carol S ^a   Sineva, Elena ^a,c   Berezin, Igor ^a   Romeo, Tony ^b   Babitzke, Paul ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN CSRA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CARBON STORAGE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CSRA GENE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 79960722197     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07723.x     Document Type: Article

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