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YrxA is the transcriptional regulator that represses de novo NAD biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis
Paola Rossolillo1, Ilaria Marinoni, Elisa Galli
1Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 1, Via Ferrata, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
Abstract:
The first genetic, in vivo, and in vitro evidences that YrxA is the regulator of NAD de novo biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis are hereby reported. The protein is essential to the transcription repression of the divergent operons nadBCA and nifS-yrxA in the presence of nicotinic acid and binds to their shared operator-promoter region.
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