The PurR regulon in Lactococcus lactis - Transcriptional regulation of the purine nucleotide metabolism and translational machinery

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 158, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2026-2038

  Jendresen, Christian Bille ^a   Martinussen, Jan ^a   Kilstrup, Mogens ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INORGANIC PYROPHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; PURR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BIOINFORMATICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE CONTROL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE METABOLISM; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PURINES; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

EID: 84865652195     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.059576-0     Document Type: Article

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