Quorum-sensing Escherichia coli regulator A: A regulator of the LysR family involved in the regulation of the locus of enterocyte effacement pathogenicity island in enterohemorrhagic E. coli

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 3085-3093

  Sperandio, Vanessa ^a   Li, Caiyi C ^a   Kaper, James B ^a  

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

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; DIARRHEA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOTYPE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTESTINE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPERON; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036259813     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.6.3085-3093.2002     Document Type: Article

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