Rns, a virulence regulator within the AraC family, requires binding sites upstream and downstream of its own promoter to function as an activator

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1391-1402

  Munson, George P ^a   Scott, June R ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE; PILIN; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION;

ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CARRIER PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033923860     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01957.x     Document Type: Article

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