Transfer RNA modification, temperature and DNA superhelicity have a common target in the regulatory network of the virulence of Shigella flexneri: The expression of the virF gene

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 924-935

  Durand, Jérôme M B ^a   Dagberg, Björn ^a   Uhlin, Bernt Eric ^a   Björk, Glenn R ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GYRASE INHIBITOR; MESSENGER RNA; NOVOBIOCIN; NUCLEOSIDE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTEROBACTER INFECTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA CONFORMATION; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STRUCTURAL GENE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, SUPERHELICAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, TRANSFER; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI;

EID: 0033965439     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01767.x     Document Type: Article

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