Thermoregulation of the Escherichia coli O157:H7 pO157 ecf operon and lipid a myristoyl transferase activity involves intrinsically curved DNA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 419-435

  Yoon, Jang W ^a   Minnich, Scott A ^a   Ahn, Jong S ^b,d   Park, Yong H ^c   Paszczynski, Andrzej ^a   Hovde, Carolyn J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d Animal Plant and Fisheries Quarantine and Inspection Agency   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED DNA; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN; LIPID A; PROTEIN N MYRISTOYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; DELETION MUTANT; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYRISTYLATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOREGULATION;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0942290456     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2003.03827.x     Document Type: Article

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