The Staphylococcal Ferritins Are Differentially Regulated in Response to Iron and Manganese and via PerR and Fur

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 972-979

  Morrissey, Julie A ^a,b   Cockayne, Alan ^a   Brummell, Kirsty ^c   Williams, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FERRITIN; IRON; MANGANESE; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY; RNA;

AHPC GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; DNA SEQUENCE; FTNA GENE; FUR GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IRON TRANSPORT; MRGA GENE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PERR GENE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; FERRITINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; IRON; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0842326281     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.2.972-979.2004     Document Type: Article

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