Maltose-dependent transcriptional regulation of the mal regulon by MalR in Streptococcus pneumoniae

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Afzal, Muhammad ^a,b   Shafeeq, Sulman ^a,c   Manzoor, Irfan ^a,c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b GOVERNMENT COLLEGE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLASE; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; CATABOLITE CONTROL PROTEIN A; GLUCOKINASE; GLUCOSIDASE; MALTOSE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN AMYA2; PROTEIN DEXB; PROTEIN PTSG; PROTEIN ROKB; PULLULANASE; PULLULANASE A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; MALR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

AMYA2 GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEXB GENE; ENZYME ASSAY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REPRESSION; MALAR OPERON; MALMP OPERON; MALTOSE REGULON; MALXCD OPERON; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLEIOTROPY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PTSG GENE; PULA GENE; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ROKB GENE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERATOR GENE;

STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUCOSE; MALTOSE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OPERATOR REGIONS, GENETIC; OPERON; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84931274973     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127579     Document Type: Article

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