Identification and characterization of three new promoter/operators from Corynebacterium diphtheriae that are regulated by the diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) and iron

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4273-4280

  Lee, John H ^a   Wang, Ting ^b,d   Ault, Kristen ^b,e   Liu, Juan ^b,f   Schmitt, Michael P ^b,g   Holmes, Randall K ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Peters Pediatric Services of America   (United States)

^g CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; IRON; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPRESSOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0030879821     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.10.4273-4280.1997     Document Type: Article

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