Identification of transcription activators that regulate gonococcal adaptation from aerobic to anaerobic or oxygen-limited growth

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 839-855

  Lissenden, Sarah ^a   Mohan, Sudesh ^a   Overton, Tim ^a   Regan, Tess ^a   Crooke, Helen ^a   Cardinale, Jean A ^b   Householder, Tracey C ^b   Adams, Phillip ^c   O'Conner, C David ^c   Clark, Virginia L ^b   Smith, Harry ^a   Cole, Jeffrey A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C PEROXIDASE; NITRATE; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITROUS OXIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME C GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NITRITES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033867983     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02050.x     Document Type: Article

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