Transcriptome analysis of Listeria monocytogenes identifies three groups of genes differently regulated by PrfA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1613-1625

  Milohanic, Eliane ^a   Glaser, Philippe ^a   Coppée, Jean Yves ^a   Frangeul, Lionel ^a   Vega, Yolanda ^c   Vázquez Boland, José A ^b   Kunst, Frank ^a   Cossart, Pascale ^a   Buchrieser, Carmen ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CELLOBIOSE; PROTEIN PRFA; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DOWN REGULATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CELLOBIOSE; CHARCOAL; CULTURE MEDIA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0345146908     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03413.x     Document Type: Article

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