A proximal promoter element required for positive transcriptional control by guanosine tetraphosphate and DKSA protein during the stringent response

Journal of Biological Chemistry

Volumn 288, Issue 29, 2013, Pages 21055-21064

  Gummesson, Bertil ^a,b   Lovmar, Martin ^a,c   Nyström, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^c Wellspect HealthCare   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS-ACTING ELEMENT; GUANOSINES; PROMOTER ELEMENTS; RNA POLYMERASE; SATURATION KINETICS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL;

POLYMERS;

RNA;

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN DKSA; RNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; USPA GENE;

BACTERIAL TRANSCRIPTION; DISCRIMINATOR; DKSA; GENE REGULATION; PPGPP; RIBOSOMAL RNA (RRNA); RNA POLYMERASE; STRESS RESPONSE; STRINGENT CONTROL;

AT RICH SEQUENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84880550155     PISSN: 00219258     EISSN: 1083351X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M113.479998     Document Type: Article

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