RegA, iron, and growth phase regulate expression of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa tol-oprL gene cluster

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 182, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2077-2087

  Duan, Kangmin ^a   Lafontaine, Eric R ^a,b   Majumdar, Sonali ^a   Sokol, Pamela A ^a  

^a Health Sciences Centre Calgary   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; IRON;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GROWTH CURVE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELL DIVISION; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; IRON; LIPOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PEPTIDOGLYCAN; PROTEOGLYCANS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; GOSSWEILERODENDRON BALSAMIFERUM; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0034079568     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.182.8.2077-2087.2000     Document Type: Article

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