A novel chromosomal locus of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC), which encodes a bfpT-regulated chaperone-like protein, TrcA, involved in microcolony formation by EPEC

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 741-752

  Tobe, Toru ^a   Tatsuno, Ichiro ^a   Katayama, Eisaku ^a   Wu, Cheng Yen ^b   Schoolnik, Gary K ^b   Sasakawa, Chihiro ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CHAPERONE; HYBRID PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; BACTERIUM COLONY; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; TRANSACTIVATION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0032814939     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01522.x     Document Type: Article

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