Thermoregulation of Escherichia coil pap transcription: H-NS is a temperature-dependent DNA methylation blocking factor

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1121-1137

  White Ziegler, Christine A ^a,b   Angus Hill, Melinda L ^a   Braaten, Bruce A ^a   Van Der Woude, Marjan W ^a,c   Low, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; NUCLEOPROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIFAMPICIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; H NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; H-NS PROTEIN, BACTERIA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UROTHELIUM; COLIPHAGE; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOSE OPERON; METABOLISM; MUTATION; OPERON; PLASMID; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; COLIPHAGES; DNA METHYLATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MUTATION; OPERON; PLASMIDS; RNA, MESSENGER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031595203     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00872.x     Document Type: Article

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