cis elements and trans factors are both important in strain-specific regulation of the leukotoxin gene in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 3451-3460

  Kolodrubetz, David ^a   Spitznagel Jr , John ^a,b   Wang, Beinan ^a   Phillips, Linda H ^a   Jacobs, Chris ^a   Kraig, Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEUKOTOXIN;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029823674     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.64.9.3451-3460.1996     Document Type: Article

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