The incompatibility between the PlcR- and AtxA-controlled regulons may have selected a nonsense mutation in Bacillus anthracis

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1189-1198

  Mignot, Tâm ^a   Mock, Michèle ^a   Robichon, Denis ^a   Landier, Annie ^a   Lereclus, Didier ^a   Fouet, Agnès ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMOLYSIN; PHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN ATXA; PROTEIN PLCR; PROTEINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAME; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; SPOROGENESIS; TOXICITY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CODON, NONSENSE; DNA PRIMERS; ENDOPEPTIDASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMOLYSIS; MICE; PLASMIDS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS CEREUS GROUP; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0035724284     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02692.x     Document Type: Article

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