Fine-tuning control of PhoBR expression in vibrio cholerae by binding of PhoB to multiple Pho boxes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 193, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 6929-6938

  Diniz, Michelle Menezes Passos ^a   Goulart, Carolina Lage ^a   Barbosa, Livia Carvalho ^a   Farache, Júlia ^a,b   Lery, Letícia Miranda Santos ^a,c   Pacheco, Ana Beatriz Furlanetto ^a   Bisch, Paulo Mascarello ^a   von Krüger, Wanda Maria de Almeida ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; PHOBR PROTEIN; PHOSPHATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CODON; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULON; RNA TRANSLATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHOSPHATES; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 84855825312     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06015-11     Document Type: Article

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