Vibrio vulnificus has the transmembrane transcription activator ToxRS stimulating the expression of the hemolysin gene vvhA

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 3405-3415

  Lee, Shee Eun ^a   Shin, Sung Heui ^b   Kim, Soo Young ^a   Kim, Young Ran ^a   Shin, Dong Hyeon ^a   Chung, Sun Sik ^a   Lee, Zang Hee ^c   Lee, Jee Yeon ^a   Jeong, Kwang Choel ^a   Choi, Sang Ho ^a   Rhee, Joon Haeng ^a,d  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Chosun University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Chosun University   (South Korea)

^d Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHOLERA TOXIN; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; HSP90 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO PARAHAEMOLYTICUS; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

EID: 0013004535     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.12.3405-3415.2000     Document Type: Article

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