Involvement of OpcR, a GbsR-type transcriptional regulator, in negative regulation of two evolutionarily closely related choline uptake genes in Bacillus subtilis

Microbiology (United Kingdom)

Volumn 159, Issue PART 10, 2013, Pages 2087-2096

  Lee, Chun Hao ^a   Wu, Tien Yu ^a   Shaw, Gwo Chyuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CHOLINE UPTAKE; GENE EXPRESSION; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHOLINE; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884788164     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: 14652080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.067074-0     Document Type: Article

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