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Identification and characterization of EctR1, a new transcriptional regulator of the ectoine biosynthesis genes in the halotolerant methanotroph Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 2010
Mustakhimov Ildar I, Reshetnikov Alexander S, Glukhov Anatoly S, Khmelenina Valentina N, Kalyuzhnaya Marina G, Trotsenko Yuri A
Abstract excerpt
Genes encoding key enzymes of the ectoine biosynthesis pathway in the halotolerant obligate methanotroph Methylomicrobium alcaliphilum 20Z have been shown to be organized into an ectABC-ask operon. Transcription of the ect operon is initiated from two promoters, ectAp(1) and ectAp(2) (ectAp(1)p(2)), similar to the sigma(70)-dependent promoters of Escherichia coli. Upstream of the gene cluster, an open reading...
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