Growing repertoire of AraC/XylS activators

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 184, Issue 20, 2002, Pages 5529-5532

  Egan, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); VIBRIO; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 0036786814     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.184.20.5529-5532.2002     Document Type: Note

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