An extended role for the nucleoid structuring protein H-NS in the virulence gene regulatory cascade of Shigella flexneri

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 825-838

  Beloin, Christophe ^a,b   Dorman, Charles J ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN ICSB; PROTEIN VIRA; STRUCTURAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRB PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BINDING ASSAY; BINDING SITE; CELL LEVEL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLA FLEXNERI; VIRUSES (INFECTIVE AGENTS);

EID: 0037238137     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03347.x     Document Type: Article

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