High- and low-affinity cre boxes for CcpA binding in Bacillus subtilis revealed by genome-wide analysis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Marciniak, Bogumiła C ^a   Pabijaniak, Monika ^a   de Jong, Anne ^a   Duhring, Robert ^b   Seidel, Gerald ^b   Hillen, Wolfgang ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Kluyver Center for Genomics of Industrial Fermentation   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Catabolite responsive elements (cre) affinity; CcpA; Cre box motif

Indexed keywords

CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CATABOLITE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

EID: 84866945271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-13-401     Document Type: Article

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