Effects of PipX on NtcA-dependent promoters and characterization of the cox3 promoter region in the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120

FEBS Letters

Volumn 588, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1787-1794

  Camargo, Sergio ^a   Valladares, Ana ^a   Forchhammer, Karl ^b   Herrero, Antonia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Transcriptional regulation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLOOXYGENASE 3; NTCA PROTEIN; PIPX PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANABAENA; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COX3 GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANABAENA; CYANOBACTERIA; NOSTOC SP. PCC 7120;

CYANOBACTERIA; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION;

ANABAENA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84899636615     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2014.03.039     Document Type: Article

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