Transcriptional regulation of nitrate assimilation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa occurs via transcriptional antitermination within the nirBD- PA1779-cobA operon

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1543-1552

  Romeo, Alessandra ^a   Sonnleitner, Elisabeth ^a   Sorger Domenigg, Theresa ^a   Nakano, Masayuki ^a   Eisenhaber, Birgit ^b   Bläsi, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITROGEN ASSIMILATION LEADER A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RNA SEQUENCE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION ANTITERMINATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRATES; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; NALA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 84861878929     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.053850-0     Document Type: Article

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