Cloning and characterization of a Legionella pneumophila-specific gene encoding a member of the LysR family of transcriptional regulators

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 264, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 204-211

  Heuner, K ^a   Dietrich, C ^a   Steinert, M ^a   Gobel U B ^b   Hacker, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Flagellum; Legionella pneumophila; LysR family; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LUCIFERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA;

EID: 0033653959     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004380000310     Document Type: Article

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