An activator of glutamate decarboxylase genes regulates the expression of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli virulence genes through control of the plasmid-encoded regulator, per

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1133-1150

  Shin, Sooan ^a   Castanie Cornet, Marie Pierre ^b   Foster, John W ^b   Crawford, J Adam ^a   Brinkley, Carl ^a   Kaper, James B ^a  

^a University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; INTIMIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PH; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REPORTER GENE; SMALL INTESTINE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRULENCE; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PERA;

EID: 0035788432     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2001.02570.x     Document Type: Article

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