PlcR is a pleiotropic regulator of extracellular virulence factor gene expression in Bacillus thuringiensis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1043-1053

  Agaisse, Hervé ^a,b,d   Gomlnet, Myriam ^a,d   OØkstad, Ole Andreas ^c,d   Kolstø, Anne Brit ^c,d   Lereclus, Didier ^a,b,d  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; ENTEROTOXIN; PALINDROMIC DNA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; PHOSPHOLIPASE C; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TAXONOMY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESTRICTION MAPPING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS MYCOIDES; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033027329     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01419.x     Document Type: Article

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