Comparison of the promoter proximal regions of the toxin-co-regulated tcp gene cluster in classical and El Tor strains of Vibrio cholerae O1

Gene

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-16

  Ogierman, Monica A ^a   Voss, Elena ^a   Meaney, Cathy ^a   Faast, Renate ^a   Attridge, Stephen R ^a   Manning, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adherence; Colonization; Fimbriae; Pathogenesis; Pilus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE CLUSTER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; LIPOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0029875233     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(95)00744-X     Document Type: Article

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