Characterization of the Acinetobacter baumannii Fur regulator: Cloning and sequencing of the fur homolog gene

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 199-209

  Daniel, Catherine ^a,b   Haentjens, Stéphanie ^a   Bissinger, Marie Christine ^a   Courcol, René J ^a  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter baumannii; Ferric uptake regulator; Iron; Iron regulated protein; Siderophore

Indexed keywords

IRON; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BINDING SITE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACINETOBACTER; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; GENES, BACTERIAL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIDEROPHORES;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0032898715     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(98)00533-3     Document Type: Article

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