The Vibrio cholerae fatty acid regulatory protein, FadR, represses transcription of plsB, the gene encoding the first enzyme of membrane phospholipid biosynthesis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1020-1033

  Feng, Youjun ^a   Cronan, John E ^a,b  

^a Departments of Microbiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GLYCEROL 3 PHOSPHATE ACYLTRANSFERASE; OLEIC ACID; PROTEIN FADR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FATTY ACID METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHOLIPID SYNTHESIS; PLSB GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ACETYLTRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 80051556512     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07748.x     Document Type: Article

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