Transcriptional regulation of the pas gene of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 119-125

  Beltrametti, Fabrizio ^a   Kresse, Andreas U ^a   Guzmán, Carlos A ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC); Escherichia coli; Pas; Regulation; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TEMPERATURE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; LURIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0033974467     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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