Autoactivation and environmental regulation of bfpT expression, the gene coding for the transcriptional activator of bfpA in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 153-166

  Martínez Laguna, Ygnacio ^a,b   Calva, Edmundo ^a   Puente, José Luis ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM PILUS; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE ACTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TEMPERATURE; TRANSACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARAC TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SIGMA FACTOR; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0345643486     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.1999.01460.x     Document Type: Article

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