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. 1996 Apr;178(8):2450–2454. doi: 10.1128/jb.178.8.2450-2454.1996

Autogenous regulation of the Bacillus subtilis glnRA operon.

S W Brown 1, A L Sonenshein 1
PMCID: PMC177962  PMID: 8636055

Abstract

Purified Bacillus subtilis GlnR was shown to bind with high affinity to a specific region that overlaps with the glnRA promoter site. The GlnR binding site includes four copies of a repeated sequence that may be the recognition site for the protein. GlnR inhibited transcription from the glnRA promoter in vitro.

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