A TetR-like regulator broadly affects the expressions of diverse genes in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1009-1020

  Yang, Min ^a   Gao, Chunhui ^a   Cui, Tao ^a   An, Jingning ^a   He, Zheng Guo ^a  

^a HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TETR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; CELL CYCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOOTPRINTING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, CDC; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REC A RECOMBINASES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SMEGMATIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84856894233     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkr830     Document Type: Article

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