Role of intragenic binding of cAMP responsive protein (CRP) in regulation of the succinate dehydrogenase genes Rv0249c-Rv0247c in TB complex mycobacteria

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5377-5393

  Knapp, Gwendowlyn S ^a,e   Lyubetskaya, Anna ^b   Peterson, Matthew W ^c   Gomes, Antonio L C ^b,f   Ma, Zhuo ^a   Galagan, James E ^b,c   McDonough, Kathleen A ^a,d  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CAMP RESPONSIVE PROTEIN; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; DNA SEQUENCE; FUMARATE REDUCTASE GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUTATIVE COPPER TRANSPORTER GENE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; REGULON;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERINEAE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP RECEPTOR PROTEIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULON; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

EID: 84936818602     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv420     Document Type: Article

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