The Vibrio cholerae ToxR/TcpP/ToxT virulence cascade: Distinct roles for two membrane-localized transcriptional activators on a single promoter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 67-84

  Krukonis, Eric S ^a   Yu, Rosa R ^a   DiRita, Victor J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CHOLERA TOXIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; PROTEIN TCPP; PROTEIN TOXR; PROTEIN TOXT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; TOXIN SYNTHESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033815224     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02111.x     Document Type: Article

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