Oligomeric interaction of the PapB transcriptional regulator with the upstream activating region of pili adhesin gene promoters in Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 513-523

  Xia, Yan ^b   Forsman, Kristina ^a,b   Jass, Jana ^b   Uhlin, Bernt Eric ^b  

^a ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; OLIGOMER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DISTAMYCINS; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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

EID: 0031769014     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.01080.x     Document Type: Article

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