A mgl-like operon in Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete

Gene

Volumn 177, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 115-121

  Porcella, Stephen F ^a   Popova, Taissia G ^a   Hagman, Kayla E ^a   Penn, Charles W ^b   Radolf, Justin D ^a   Norgard, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATP binding cassette; Chemotaxis; Glucose; Signal transduction; Syphilis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SPIROCHETE; SYPHILIS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SUBSP. PALLIDUM;

EID: 0030600448     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-1119(96)00286-7     Document Type: Article

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