Molecular cloning and transcriptional regulation of ompT, a ToxR-repressed gene in Vibrio cholerae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 189-203

  Li, Caiyi C ^a   Crawford, J Adam ^b   DiRita, Victor J ^b   Kaper, James B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP BINDING PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PORIN; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE FUSION; GENE REPRESSION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA TRANSLATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; START CODON; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PORINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0033982811     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01699.x     Document Type: Article

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