CtsR controls class III heat shock gene expression in the human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 800-811

  Nair, Shamila ^a   Derré, Isabelle ^b   Msadek, Tarek ^b   Gaillot, Olivier ^a   Berche, Patrick ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE INDUCTION; HEAT SHOCK; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; STRESS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTERIUM SUBTILIS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033952745     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01752.x     Document Type: Article

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