Identification and characterization of the LysR-type transcriptional regulator HsdR for steroid-inducible expression of the 3α-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase/carbonyl reductase gene in Comamonas testosteroni

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 941-950

  Gong, Wenjie ^a   Xiong, Guangming ^a   Maser, Edmund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DE-REPRESSION; HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; IN-VITRO; KEY ENZYMES; KNOCKOUT MUTANT; LOW LEVEL; MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAYS; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; POSITIVE TRANSCRIPTION; PROMOTER REGION; REDUCTASE GENES; RNA POLYMERASE; SOIL AND WATER; TESTOSTERONI; TRANSCRIPTIONAL FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; TRANSFORMATION SYSTEMS; WILD TYPES;

CLONING; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; LIPIDS; MASERS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

3(OR 17)BETA HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASE; ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE; BACTERIAL DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; STEROID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BACTERIUM; BIOASSAY; CHROMOSOME; ELECTROKINESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; STEROID;

ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DNA SEQUENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN BINDING;

3-HYDROXYSTEROID DEHYDROGENASES; ALCOHOL OXIDOREDUCTASES; COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STEROIDS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

COMAMONAS TESTOSTERONI;

EID: 84857066686     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.06872-11     Document Type: Article

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