The pathogenic neisseriae contain an inactive rpoN gene and do not utilize the pilE σ54 promoter

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 95-102

  Laskos, Lina ^a   Dillard, Joseph P ^b   Seifert, H Steven ^b   Fyfe, Janet A M ^a   Davies, John K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gonococcus; Pili; RLS; RpoN

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; GENE FUSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MUTAGENESIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PILI, SEX; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032536405     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00664-1     Document Type: Article

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