Identification of a regulatory protein required for pressure-responsive gene expression in the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium species strain SS9

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 977-985

  Welch, Timothy J ^a,b   Bartlett, Douglas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEA; VIBRIONACEAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PHOTOBACTERIUM; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIONACEAE;

EID: 0031779823     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00742.x     Document Type: Article

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