The CarA/LitR-family transcriptional regulator: Its possible role as a photosensor and wide distribution in non-phototrophic bacteria.
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LitR is a MerR-family regulator that controls light-induced carotenogenesis in Streptomyces coelicolor. The introduction of litR conferred photo-dependent transcription activities on Streptomyces griseus, which does not perform photo-responsive carotenogenesis. LitR discovers homologs encoded at illumination-related loci of various non-phototrophic bacterial genomes. Probably, LitR acts not only as a transcriptional regulator but also a photosensor.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry
دوره 70 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006