Iron-responsive gene regulation in a Campylobacter jejuni fur mutant

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 180, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 5291-5298

  Van Vliet, Arnoud H M ^a,b   Wooldridge, Karl G ^a,c   Ketley, Julian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON REGULATORY FACTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; IRON RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATOR GENE; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 0031690670     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/jb.180.20.5291-5298.1998     Document Type: Article

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