Characterization of a cAMP responsive transcription factor, Cmr (Rv1675c), in TB complex mycobacteria reveals overlap with the DosR (DevR) dormancy regulon

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 134-151

  Ranganathan, Sridevi ^a   Bai, Guangchun ^b,e   Lyubetskaya, Anna ^c,f   Knapp, Gwendowlyn S ^b   Peterson, Matthew W ^c   Gazdik, Michaela ^a,h   Gomes, Antonio L C ^c,g   Galagan, James E ^c,d   McDonough, Kathleen A ^a,b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

^e ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^g Intermountain Healthcare ^*  (United States)

^h INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP; DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CMR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DOSR PROTEIN, MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULON; ANIMAL; BOVINE; CHEMISTRY; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SYSTEMATIC EVOLUTION OF LIGANDS BY EXPONENTIAL ENRICHMENT APTAMER TECHNIQUE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; CATTLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYCLIC AMP; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; POSITION-SPECIFIC SCORING MATRICES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SELEX APTAMER TECHNIQUE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84959359422     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv889     Document Type: Article

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