An iron- and fur-repressed Legionella pneumophila gene that promotes intracellular infection and encodes a protein with similarity to the Escherichia coli aerobactin synthetases

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 133-143

  Hickey, Erin K ^a   Cianciotto, Nicholas P ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBACTIN; IRON; SYNTHETASE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GROWTH REGULATION; IRON CHELATION; IRON METABOLISM; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS REGULATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0031032030     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/iai.65.1.133-143.1997     Document Type: Article

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