Characterization of Campylobacter upsaliensis fur and its localization in a highly conserved region of the Campylobacter genome

Gene

Volumn 183, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 219-224

  Bourke, Billy ^a,b   Al Rashid, Shahnaz T ^b   Bingham, Hermine L ^b   Chan, Voon Loong ^b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

CAP sequence; Enteric pathogen; Iron uptake regulator; Stress response; Virulence

Indexed keywords

IRON BINDING PROTEIN; POLYPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CODON; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENOME; IRON TRANSPORT; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CAMPYLOBACTER; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENES, BACTERIAL; LYSINE-TRNA LIGASE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER COLI; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CAMPYLOBACTER UPSALIENSIS;

EID: 0030471138     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(96)00562-8     Document Type: Article

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