Analysis of the Corynebacterium diphtheriae DtxR Regulon: Identification of a Putative Siderophore Synthesis and Transport System that Is Similar to the Yersinia High-Pathogenicity Island-Encoded Yersiniabactin Synthesis and Uptake System

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 185, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 6826-6840

  Kunkle, Carey A ^a   Schmitt, Michael P ^a  

^a CENTER FOR BIOLOGICS EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIPHTHERIA TOXIN REPRESSOR; DNA FRAGMENT; HEME; IRON; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIDEROPHORE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YERSINIABACTIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON TRANSPORT; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OPERON; PATHOGENICITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULON; SYNTHESIS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHROMOSOMES, BACTERIAL; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEME; HUMANS; IRON; MUTATION; PHENOLS; REGULON; SIDEROPHORES; THIAZOLES; TITRIMETRY; VIRULENCE; YERSINIA PESTIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CORYNEBACTERIUM; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; NEGIBACTERIA; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 0344825084     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.185.23.6826-6840.2003     Document Type: Article

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