CT406 encodes a chlamydial ortholog of NrdR, a repressor of ribonucleotide reductase

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 4396-4404

  Case, Elizabeth Di Russo ^a,c   Akers, Johnny C ^a   Tan, Ming ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; COREPRESSOR PROTEIN; CT 406; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; HYDROXYUREA; NRDAB PROTEIN; NRDH PROTEIN; NRDR PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERATOR GENE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROXYUREA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PLASMIDS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RIBONUCLEOTIDE REDUCTASES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 80052320557     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00294-11     Document Type: Article

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