Hierarchy in the expression of the locus of enterocyte effacement genes of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 941-952

  Friedberg, Devorah ^a   Umanski, Tatiana ^a   Fang, Yuan ^a   Rosenshine, Man ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; BACTERIAL DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INTEGRATION HOST FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENTEROPATHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC REGULATION; HOST CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPORTER GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033458708     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01655.x     Document Type: Article

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