Double locking of an Escherichia coli promoter by two repressors prevents premature colicin expression and cell lysis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 129-139

  Butala, Matej ^a   Sonjak, Silva ^a   Kamenšek, Simona ^a   Hodošček, Milan ^b   Browning, Douglas F ^c   Žgur Bertok, Darja ^a   Busby, Stephen J W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLICIN; IRON SULPHUR CLUSTER REGULATOR PROTEIN; LEXA PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL GENE; COLLICIN K GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE PRODUCT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIOLYSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; COLICINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84867074451     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2012.08179.x     Document Type: Article

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