YbtP and YbtQ: Two ABC transporters required for iron uptake in Yersinia pestis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 289-299

  Fetherston, Jacqueline D ^a   Bertolino, Vincent J ^a   Perry, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; SIDEROPHORE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MUTANT; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA FLANKING REGION; FLEA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HYDROPHOBICITY; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLAGUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0032921490     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01348.x     Document Type: Article

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