Vibrio cholerae iron transport: haem transport genes are linked to one of two sets of tonB, exbB, exbD genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1493-1507

  Occhino, Deborah A ^a   Wyckoff, Elizabeth E ^a   Henderson, Douglas P ^a,b   Wrona, Thomas J ^a   Payne, Shelley M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; FERRICHROME; HEME; IRON; KANAMYCIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PERMEASE; SIDEROPHORE; VIBRIOBACTIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE; CHROMOSOME MUTATION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELECTROPORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; HEME; IRON; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

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

EID: 0031689477     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01034.x     Document Type: Article

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