RsmA post-transcriptionally controls PhbR expression and polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis in Azotobacter vinelandii

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1953-1963

  Hernandez Eligio, Alberto ^a   Moreno, Soledad ^a   Castellanos, Mildred ^a   Castañeda, Miguel ^b   Nuñez, Cinthia ^a   Muriel Millan, Luis Felipe ^a   Espín, Guadalupe ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; POLYHYDROXYBUTYRATE; PROTEIN RSMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGD GENE; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GACA GENE; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GUSA GENE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PHBR GENE; POLYMER PRODUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA STABILITY; RSMA GENE; RSMY GENE; RSMZ1 GENE; RSMZ2 GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROXYBUTYRATES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

AZOTOBACTER VINELANDII;

EID: 84865631344     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.059329-0     Document Type: Article

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