Interactive regulation by the Bacillus subtilis global regulators CodY and ScoC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 698-716

  Belitsky, Boris R ^a   Barbieri, Giulia ^b   Albertini, Alessandra M ^b   Ferrari, Eugenio ^b   Strauch, Mark A ^c,d   Sonenshein, Abraham L ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d Pronutria   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERMEASE; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SCOC PROTEIN, BACILLUS SUBTILIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CODY GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; DTPT GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; OPERON; OPPA GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOC GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84939162945     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mmi.13056     Document Type: Article

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