Regulation of the KstR2 regulon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis by a cholesterol catabolite

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1201-1212

  Casabon, Israël ^a   Zhu, Song Hua ^a,b   Otani, Hiroshi ^a   Liu, Jie ^a   Mohn, William W ^a   Eltis, Lindsay D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Algenol Biofuels   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3A ALPHA H 4 ALPHA(3' PROPANOATE) 7A BETA METHYLHEXAHYDRO 1,5 INDANEDIONE; INDAN DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; CHOLESTEROL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC REGULATION; KSTR2 GENE; LIGAND BINDING; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; RHODOCOCCUS; RHODOCOCCUS JOSTII; UPREGULATION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; RHODOCOCCUS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLESTEROL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RHODOCOCCUS;

EID: 84884287648     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12340     Document Type: Article

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