Complex regulation of the phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase gene pck and characterization of its Gntr-type regulator IolR as a repressor of myo-inositol utilization genes in corynebacterium glutamicum

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 195, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 4283-4296

  Klaffl, Simon ^a,c   Brocker, Melanie ^a   Kalinowski, Jörn ^b   Eikmanns, Bernhard J ^c   Bott, Michael ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; GLUCOSE; INOSITOL; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (GTP); PHOSPHOPYRUVATE CARBOXYLASE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BINDING SITE; CARBON SOURCE; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; DELETION MUTANT; DNA BINDING; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME REGULATION; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONTROL; GENE DELETION; GENE PRODUCT; GLUCONEOGENESIS; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POINT MUTATION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULON; REPRESSOR GENE; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INOSITOL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHOSPHOENOLPYRUVATE CARBOXYKINASE (ATP); PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84883267268     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: 10985530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.00265-13     Document Type: Article

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