Differential interaction of the transcription factor PrfA and the PrfA- activating factor (Paf) of Listeria monocytogenes with target sequences

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 915-928

  Dickneite, Carmen ^a   Böckmann, Regine ^a   Spory, Andrea ^a   Goebel, Werner ^a   Sokolovic, Zeljka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BINDING SITE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BINDING SITES; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0031779822     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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