A new PrfA-regulated gene of Listeria monocytogenes encoding at small, secreted protein which belongs to the family of internalins

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 823-837

  Engelbrecht, Fredi ^a   Chun, Soo Kyung ^a   Ochs, Christian ^a   Hess, Jürgen ^b   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^c   Goebel, Werner ^a   Sokolovic, Zeljka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; INTERNALIN C PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN SECRETION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE DELETION; GENE DOSAGE; GENE ISOLATION; GENE PRODUCT; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INLA GENE; INLC GENE; LISTERIOSIS; MOUSE; OPERON; PHAGOCYTE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRFA GENE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES;

EID: 0029745347     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1996.541414.x     Document Type: Article

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