FimZ binds the Salmonella typhimurium fimA promoter region and may regulate its own expression with FimY

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-10

  Yeh, Kuang Sheng ^a   Tinker, Juliette K ^b   Clegg, Steven ^b  

^a Pig Research Institute Taiwan   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activator; Salmonella typhimurium; Type 1 fimbriae

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BACTERIAL DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I; GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN FIMY; PROTEIN FIMZ; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; FIMBRIA; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TANDEM REPEAT; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORDETELLA; BORDETELLA PERTUSSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; SALMONELLA TYPHIMURIUM;

EID: 0036154824     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2002.tb02670.x     Document Type: Article

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