Temperature and growth phase regulate the transcription of the O-antigen gene cluster of Yersinia enterocolitica O:3

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 529, Issue , 2003, Pages 289-292

  Lahtinen, Pia ^a   Brzezinska, Agnieszka ^a   Skurnik, Mikael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE CLUSTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; KINETICS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; O ANTIGENS; OPERON; TEMPERATURE; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA;

EID: 0037792871     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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