The one-component system ArnR: A membrane-bound activator of the crenarchaeal archaellum

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 125-139

  Lassak, Kerstin ^a   Peeters, Eveline ^b   Wróbel, Sandra ^a   Albers, Sonja Verena ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARNR; ACTIVATING TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ARNR1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FLAB GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ARCHAEAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ARCHAEAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ARCHAEA; CRENARCHAEOTA; DESULFUROCOCCALES; EURYARCHAEOTA; SULFOLOBALES; SULFOLOBUS ACIDOCALDARIUS;

EID: 84875590805     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12173     Document Type: Article

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