Overlapping binding sites for the virulence gene regulators AphA, AphB and cAMP-CRP at the Vibrio cholerae TcpPH promoter

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 393-407

  Kovacikova, G ^a   Skorupski, K ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; CYSTEINE RICH PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; PROTEIN APHA; PROTEIN APHB; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR TCPH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; REGULATOR GENE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYCLIC AMP; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LETHAL DOSE 50; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESPONSE ELEMENTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIBRIO CHOLERAE O1 BIOVAR ELTOR;

EID: 0034906531     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02518.x     Document Type: Article

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