A role for the leucine-responsive regulatory protein and integration host factor in the regulation of the Salmonella plasmid virulence (spv) locus in Salmonella typhimurium

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 134-145

  Marshall, David G ^a   Sheehan, Brian J ^a,b   Dorman, Charles J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING); INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR; LEUCINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA STRUCTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; REGULON; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA TOPOISOMERASES, TYPE II; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; INTEGRATION HOST FACTORS; LEUCINE; LEUCINE-RESPONSIVE REGULATORY PROTEIN; PLASMIDS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0032870139     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01587.x     Document Type: Article

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