The genome of Neisseria gonorrhoeae retains the remnants of a two-component regulatory system that once controlled piliation

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 197-201

  Carrick, Catherine S ^a   Fyfe, Janet A M ^a   Davies, John K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gonococcus; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; Piliation; Two component regulatory system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CHLORAMPHENICOL ACETYLTRANSFERASE; PILIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM PILUS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSION GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PILI, SEX; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA POLYMERASE SIGMA 54; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

NEISSERIA; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 0034607993     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(00)00145-2     Document Type: Article

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