VisN and VisR are global regulators of chemotaxis, flagellar, and motility genes in Sinorhizobium (Rhizobium) meliloti

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 782-788

  Sourjik, Victor ^a,b   Muschler, Paul ^a,c   Scharf, Birgit ^a   Schmitt, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FLAGELLUM; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHEMOTAXIS; FLAGELLA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; LIGANDS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0033954685     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.3.782-788.2000     Document Type: Article

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