The FleQ protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa functions as both a repressor and an activator to control gene expression from the Pel operon promoter in response to c-di-GMP

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 7207-7218

  Baraquet, Claudine ^a   Murakami, Keiji ^a   Parsek, Matthew R ^a   Harwood, Caroline S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC DIMERIC GMP; CYCLIC GMP; FELN PROTEIN; FLEQ PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PEL OPERON; PELA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ADENOSINE DIPHOSPHATE; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC GMP; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84867302540     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks384     Document Type: Article

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