Characterization of DNA-binding sequences for CcaR in the cephamycin-clavulanic acid supercluster of Streptomyces clavuligerus

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 968-981

  Santamarta, I ^a,b,c   Lopez Garcia M T ^a,b,c   Kurt, A ^a   Nardiz N ^a,b   Alvarez Alvarez R ^a,b   Perez Redondo R ^a,b   Martin J F ^a,b   Liras, P ^a,b  

^a Institute of Biotechnology INBIOTEC Parque Científico de León   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CEPHAMYCIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; PROTEIN BLS2; PROTEIN CAR; PROTEIN CCAR; PROTEIN CEAS2; PROTEIN CEFF; PROTEIN IPNS; PROTEIN PAH2; RECOMBINANT CCAR PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; BLS2 GENE; CAR GENE; CAS2 GENE; CEAS2 GENE; CEPHAMYCIN C GENE; CISTRON; CLAR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYP GENE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ELECTROPHORESIS; FD GENE; GCAS GENE; GEL SHIFT ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAT2 GENE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPPA1 GENE; OPPA2 GENE; PAH2 GENE; PBPA GENE; POLYCISTRONIC UNIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ELECTROPHORESIS;

BINDING SITES; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; CEPHAMYCINS; CLAVULANIC ACID; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STREPTOMYCES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

STREPTOMYCES CLAVULIGERUS;

EID: 80051576001     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2011.07743.x     Document Type: Article

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