Identification and Characterization of the fis Operon in Enteric Bacteria

• Published in: Journal of bacteriology Vol. 180; no. 22; pp. 5932 - 5946
• Main Authors: Beach, Michael B., Osuna, Robert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 01.11.1998
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Bacteriology; Base Sequence; Carrier Proteins - genetics; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA, Bacterial; E coli; Enterobacteriaceae - genetics; Erwinia carotovora; Escherichia coli; Escherichia coli Proteins; Factor For Inversion Stimulation Protein; Genetics; Genetics and Molecular Biology; Haemophilus influenzae; Integration Host Factors; Klebsiella pneumoniae; Klebsiella pneumoniae - genetics; Molecular Sequence Data; Open Reading Frames; Operon; Pectobacterium carotovorum - genetics; Promoter Regions, Genetic; Proteins; Proteus vulgaris; Proteus vulgaris - genetics; Salmonella typhimurium; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Serratia marcescens; Serratia marcescens - genetics; Transcription, Genetic

The small DNA binding protein Fis is involved in several different biological processes in Escherichia coli . It has been shown to stimulate DNA inversion reactions mediated by the Hin family of recombinases, stimulate integration and excision of phage λ genome, regulate the transcription of several...