Transcription of two adjacent carbohydrate utilization gene clusters in Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 is controlled by LacI- and repressor open reading frame kinase (ROK)- type regulators

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3604-3614

  O'Connell, Kerry Joan ^a,b   Motherway, Mary O'Connell ^a,b   Liedtke, Andrea ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Gerald F ^a,b   Ross, R Paul ^b,c   Stanton, Catherine ^b,c   Zomer, Aldert ^a,b,d   Van Sinderen, Douwe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATES; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

ACTIVATOR PROTEINS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DNA-PROTEIN INTERACTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; REGULATED PROMOTERS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL CONTROL; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATOR; UTILIZATION SYSTEMS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MELEZITOSE; RAFFINOSE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRISACCHARIDE;

BIFIDOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERATOR GENE; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RAFFINOSE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRISACCHARIDES;

EID: 84901362784     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00130-14     Document Type: Article

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