hilA is a novel ompR/toxR family member that activates the expression of Salmonella typhimurium invasion genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 715-727

  Bajaj, Vivek ^a   Hwang, Clara ^a   Lee, Catherine A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MAMMALIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; ENVZ PROTEIN, E COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN; HILA PROTEIN, SALMONELLA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TOXR PROTEIN, BACTERIA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME MAP; COSMID; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LACTOSE OPERON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SALMONELLOSIS; TRANSACTIVATION; CELL INVASION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLASMIDS; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0029416946     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1995.mmi_18040715.x     Document Type: Article

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