Transcriptional activation of the CrcZ and CrcY regulatory RNAs by the CbrB response regulator in Pseudomonas putida

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 189-205

  García Mauriño, Sofía Muñoz ^a   Pérez Martínez, Isabel ^a,b   Amador, Cristina I ^c   Canosa, Inés ^a   Santero, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; CBRAB PROTEIN; CBRB PROTEIN; CRC PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CATABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRCY GENE; CRCZ GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

EID: 84879506930     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12270     Document Type: Article

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