Characterisation of a new operon encoding a Zur-like protein and an associated ABC zinc permease in Listeria monocytogenes

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 111-116

  Dalet, Karine ^a   Gouin, Edith ^b   Cenatiempo, Yves ^a   Cossart, Pascale ^b   Héchard, Yann ^a  

^a IBMIG Institut de Biologie Moleculaire et dIngenierie Genetique   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

ABC transporter; Ferric uptake regulator; Listeria; Zinc

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; IRON; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METAL ION; PERMEASE; PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ION TRANSPORT; IRON TRANSPORT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; OPERON; PHENOTYPE; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; ZINC;

EID: 0032922903     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(99)00128-7     Document Type: Article

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