Characterization of the KstR-dependent promoter of the gene for the first step of the cholesterol degradative pathway in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Microbiology

Volumn 157, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2670-2680

  Uhía, Iria ^a   Galán, Beatriz ^a   Medrano, Francisco Javier ^a   García, José Luis ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; CHOLESTEROL; GENOMIC DNA;

ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHOLESTEROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 80052372122     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.049213-0     Document Type: Article

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