AguR, a transmembrane transcription activator of the putrescine biosynthesis operon in Lactococcus lactis, acts in response to the agmatine concentration

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 6145-6157

  Linares, Daniel M ^a   del Rio, Beatriz ^a   Redruello, Begoña ^a   Ladero, Victor ^a   Cruz Martin, M ^a   de Jong, M Cruz Martin ^b   Kuipers, Oscar P ^b   Fernandez, Maria ^a   Alvarez, Miguel A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF DAIRY PRODUCTS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE ENCODING; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOILAGE;

COMPONENT SIGNALS; DNA BINDING DOMAIN; ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES; FERMENTATIVE PROCESS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; TRANS-MEMBRANE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATORS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

BACTERIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DAIRY FARMING; DNA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FOOD SAFETY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS;

AGMATINE; PUTRESCINE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

BIOSYNTHESIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; METABOLISM; OPERON;

AGMATINE; BIOSYNTHETIC PATHWAYS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; OPERON; PUTRESCINE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84943642103     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00959-15     Document Type: Article

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