Differential fluorescence induction reveals Streptococcus pneumoniae loci regulated by competence stimulatory peptide

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 126-135

  Bartilson, M ^a   Marra, A ^a   Christine, J ^a   Asundi, J S ^a   Schneider, W P ^a   Hromockyj, A E ^a  

^a PROTEIN DESIGN LABS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, BACTERIAL; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; PLASMIDS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSFORMATION, BACTERIAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; MURINAE; POSIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0035185214     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02218.x     Document Type: Article

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