Diversity in the Bordetella virulence regulon: Transcriptional control of a Bvg-intermediate phase gene

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 669-683

  Deora, Rajendar ^a   Bootsma, Hester J ^a   Miller, Jeff F ^a   Cotter, Peggy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING SITE; BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA BRONCHISEPTICA; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE TOXIN; ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; BORDETELLA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMAGGLUTININS; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PRECURSORS; REGULON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS, BORDETELLA;

EID: 0035008929     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02415.x     Document Type: Article

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