Identification and transcriptional analysis of a Treponema pallidum operon encoding a putative ABC transport system, an iron-activated repressor protein homolog, and a glycolytic pathway enzyme homolog

Gene

Volumn 197, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 47-64

  Hardham, John M ^a   Stamm, Lola V ^b   Porcella, Stephen F ^c,d   Frye, Jonathan G ^b,e   Barnes, Natalie Y ^b   Howell, Jerrilyn K ^a   Mueller, Stacey L ^a   Radolf, Justin D ^c   Weinstock, George M ^a   Norris, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Glycolysis; Import; Iron; Syphilis

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; HELICASE; IRON; LIPOPROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE PHOSPHORYLASE; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOLLIDAY JUNCTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; GENES, BACTERIAL; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PERIPLASMIC BINDING PROTEINS; PHOSPHOGLYCERATE MUTASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM; TREPONEMA PALLIDUM SUBSP. PALLIDUM;

EID: 0030766168     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00234-5     Document Type: Article

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