Distinct roles of an alternative sigma factor during both free-swimming and colonizing phases of the Vibrio cholerae pathogenic cycle

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 501-520

  Klose, Karl E ^a,b   Mekalanos, John J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN; FLAGELLIN; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL DIVISION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHOLERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLAGELLUM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FLAGELLA; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; GLUTAMATE-AMMONIA LIGASE; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOVEMENT; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031969521     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1998.00809.x     Document Type: Article

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