The ChrA response regulator in Corynebacterium diphtheriae controls hemin-regulated gene expression through binding to the hmuO and hrtAB promoter regions

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 194, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1717-1729

  Burgos, Jonathan M ^a   Schmitt, Michael P ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; HEMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; PHOSPHATE; PROTEIN HMU O; PROTEIN HRT AB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CHRA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; HEME OXYGENASE; HMUO PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLUORESCENCE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECEPTOR BINDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN BINDING;

CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEME OXYGENASE (DECYCLIZING); HEMIN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING;

EID: 84860320674     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.06801-11     Document Type: Article

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