Expression of the virulence-related Sca (Mn2+) permease in Streptococcus gordonii is regulated by a diphtheria toxin metallorepressor-like protein ScaR

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 140-153

  Jakubovics, Nicholas S ^a   Smith, Anthony W ^b   Jenkinson, Howard F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; FERRIC ION; FERROUS ION; LIPOPROTEIN; MANGANESE; MESSENGER RNA; NICKEL; PEROXIDASE; PROTEIN SCAA; PROTEIN SCAR; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR; ZINC ION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BINDING SITE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GENE INACTIVATION; HUMAN; METAL BINDING; METAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SALIVA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SERUM; STREPTOCOCCUS GORDONII; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL ADHESION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHYLOGENY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; WISKOTT-ALDRICH SYNDROME PROTEIN FAMILY;

EID: 0033815580     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02122.x     Document Type: Article

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