Characterisation of the urease gene cluster in Bordetella bronchiseptica

Gene

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 243-251

  McMillan, D J ^a   Mau, M ^b   Walker, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

HupE; LysR; Nac; Transcriptional regulator

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CATALASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NICKEL; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA PARAPERTUSSIS; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; KLEBSIELLA AEROGENES; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NICKEL; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PROTEIN HYBRIDIZATION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; UREASE;

EID: 0032570608     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00651-3     Document Type: Article

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