HemR is an OmpR/PhoB-like response regulator from Leptospira, which simultaneously effects transcriptional activation and repression of key haem metabolism genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 340-352

  Morero, Natalia R ^a   Botti, Horacio ^a   Nitta, Kazuhiro R ^b   Carrión, Federico ^a   Obal, Gonzalo ^a   Picardeau, Mathieu ^c   Buschiazzo, Alejandro ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR DE MONTEVIDEO   (Uruguay)

^b SCIENCE FOR LIFE LABORATORY   (Sweden)

^c INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHY; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENE REPRESSION; HEMA GENE; HEMR GENE; HMUO GENE; IN VIVO STUDY; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BIFLEXA; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SAPROTROPH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REGULON; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

LEPTOSPIRA;

BACTERIAL DNA; HEME; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

BINDING SITES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEME; LEPTOSPIRA; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84916942405     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.12763     Document Type: Article

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