Differential regulation of the plasmid-encoded genes in the Shigella flexneri virulence regulon

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 93-103

  Porter, M E ^a   Dorman, C J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

DNA superceiling; Environmental regulation; H NS; Shigella flexneric; Virulence genes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; OSMOLARITY; PH; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REGULON; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STRUCTURAL GENE; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLASMIDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

EID: 0030717548     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380050550     Document Type: Article

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