The Streptococcus pneumoniae cia regulon: CiaR target sites and transcription profile analysis

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 60-70

  Mascher, Thorsten ^a,c   Zähner, Dorothea ^b,d   Merai, Michelle ^a   Balmelle, Nadège ^a,b   De Saizieu, Antoine B ^a,b   Hakenbeck, Regine ^a  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULON; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROTEIN KINASES; REGULON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POSIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0037214390     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.1.60-70.2003     Document Type: Article

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