The 216-bp marB gene of the marRAB operon in Escherichia coli encodes a periplasmic protein which reduces the transcription rate of marA

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 345, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 49-55

  Vinué, Laura ^a,b   Mcmurry, Laura M ^a   Levy, Stuart B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Regulation; Small protein; Transcript stability

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PERIPLASMIC PROTEIN; PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN MARB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; KAN GENE; MARA GENE; MARB GENE; MARRAB GENE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOP CODON;

REGULATION; SMALL PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPT STABILITY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DOWN-REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; OPERON; PERIPLASM; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84880107642     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1574-6968.12182     Document Type: Article

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