Transcriptional analysis of the 5′ terminus of the flp fimbrial gene cluster from Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 205-215

  Haase, Elaine M ^a   Stream, Joshua O ^a   Scannapieco, Frank A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDASE; PRIMER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SECRETORY PROTEIN; SPACER DNA; THYMINE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; AMPLICON; ANALYTIC METHOD; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL TRANSPORT; CISTRON; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0037261596     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.25786-0     Document Type: Review

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