A- and T-Tract-Mediated Intrinsic Curvature in Native DNA between the Binding Site of the Upstream Activator NtrC and the nifLA Promoter of Klebsiella pneumoniae …

AK Cheema, NR Choudhury, HK Das - Journal of bacteriology, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
The nif promoters of Klebsiella pneumoniae must be activated by proteins bound to
upstream sequences which are thought to interact with the ς54-RNA polymerase …

The function of the upstream region of the σ;54‐dependent Klebsiella pneumoniae nifL promoter is sensitive to DNA supercoiling

S Whitehall, S Austin, R Dixon - Molecular microbiology, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The positive control protein NTRC activates transcription from the σ; 54‐dependent nifL and
glnAp2 promoters of Klebsiella pneumoniae by binding to upstream enhancer‐like …

Transcriptional activation of the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifLA promoter by NTRC is face‐of‐the‐helix dependent and the activator stabilizes the interaction of sigma 54 …

SD Minchin, S Austin, RA Dixon - The EMBO Journal, 1989 - embopress.org
Activation of transcription at the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifLA promoter requires the
phosphorylated form of the positive control protein NTRC, together with RNA polymerase …

DNA supercoiling response of the σ54-dependent Klebsiella pneumoniae nifL promoter in vitro

S Whitehall, S Austin, R Dixon - Journal of molecular biology, 1992 - Elsevier
Transcription from the σ 54-dependent Klebsiella pneumoniae nifL and glnAp2 promoters is
activated by the general nitrogen regulatory protein NTRC. Unlike the glnAp2 promoter …

Role of integration host factor in stimulating transcription from the σ54-dependent nifH promoter

E Santero, TR Hoover, AK North, DK Berger… - Journal of molecular …, 1992 - Elsevier
In a wide variety of nitrogen-fixing organisms among the Purple Bacteria (large division of
Gram-negative bacteria) the nitrogen fixation (nif) operons are transcribed by an alternative …

The effect on the function of the transcriptional activator NtrC from Klebsiella pneumoniae of mutations in the DNA-recognition helix

A Contreras, M Drummond - Nucleic acids research, 1988 - academic.oup.com
We have constructed mutations in what we predict to be the DNA-recognition helix of
Klebsiella pneumoniae NtrC, which regulates transcription from promoters under global …

Organization and function of binding sites for the transcriptional activator NifA in the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifE and nifU promoters

W Cannon, W Charlton, M Buck - Journal of molecular biology, 1991 - Elsevier
The interaction of the Klebsiella pneumoniae NifA protein, a σ 54-dependent activator, with
the nifE and nifU promoters was analysed. At these promoters NifA established contacts in …

The Klebsiella pneumoniae nifJ promoter: analysis of promoter elements regulating activation by the Nif A promoter

W Charlton, W Cannon, M Buck - Molecular microbiology, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
The nifJ and nifH promoters of Klebsiella pneumoniae are divergently transcribed σ; 54‐
dependent promoters that are positively activated by the NifA protein. NifA binds to upstream …

Geometry of the process of transcription activation at the sigma 54-dependent nifH promoter of Klebsiella pneumoniae.

JA Molina-Lopez, F Govantes, E Santero - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1994 - Elsevier
The Klebsiella pneumoniae nifH promoter is very strictly controlled by nitrogen availability
and highly dependent on sigma 54 and integration host factor (IHF) for expression. This …

DNA bending and the initiation of transcription at σ54-dependent bacterial promoters

M Carmona, F Claverie-Martin… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
We have examined the effects on transcription initiation of promoter and enhancer strength
and of the curvature of the DNA separating these entities on wild-type and mutated …