The locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE)-encoded regulator controls expression of both LEE- and non-LEE-encoded virulence factors in enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 6115-6126

  Elliott, S J ^a   Sperandio, V ^a   Giron, J A ^a   Shin, S ^a   Mellies, J L ^a   Wainwright, L ^a   Hutcheson, S W ^a   McDaniel, T K ^a   Kaper, J B ^a  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

INTIMIN; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CELL ADHESION; DNA BINDING; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL ADHESION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEINS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIRULENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0033794502     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.68.11.6115-6126.2000     Document Type: Article

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