merR | BacMet ID: BAC0232Code for: Regulator
Family: Contains 1 HTH merR-type DNA-binding domainSequence: FASTA
Cross-database information: Link
Organism: Pseudomonas aeruginosaLocation: Plasmid pVS1 (Pseudomonas aeruginosa)
Compound: Mercury (Hg)Description: Mercuric resistance operon regulatory gene whose product is a unique positively acting activator protein that twists and bends the operator DNA region in the presence of Hg++ allowing RNA polymerse to synthesize mRNA.
Length (amino acid): 144
Reference: Shewchuk et al. 1989; Pubmed- 2551364, Ni'Bhriain et al. 1983; Pubmed- 6307976
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