Cloning and characterization of the fur gene from Helicobacter pylori

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-200

  Bereswill, Stefan ^a   Lichte, Flavia ^a   Vey, Tanja ^a   Fassbinder, Frank ^a   Kist, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ferric uptake regulation; Fur gene; Fur regulon; Helicobacter pylori; Iron uptake

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CONTROL SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA LIBRARY; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE LOCUS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; REPRESSOR GENE; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; NEGIBACTERIA; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032519447     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(97)00566-1     Document Type: Article

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