NikR mediates nickel-responsive transcriptional induction of urease expression in Helicobacter pylori

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2846-2852

  Van Vliet, Arnoud H M ^a   Poppelaars, Sophie W ^a   Davies, Beverly J ^a   Stoof, Jeroen ^a   Bereswill, Stefan ^a   Kist, Manfred ^a   Penn, Charles W ^a   Kuipers, Ernst J ^a   Kusters, Johannes G ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HP1338 PROTEIN; NICKEL; NICKEL CHLORIDE; PALINDROMIC DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE FUSION; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH INHIBITION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HP1338 GENE; NIKR GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REPORTER GENE; STOMACH MUCOSA; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NICKEL; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UREASE;

EID: 0036263248     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.70.6.2846-2852.2002     Document Type: Article

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