Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Control of Cable Pilus Gene Expression in Burkholderia cenocepacia

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1009-1020

  Tomich, Mladen ^a   Mohr, Christian D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; IRON; PILIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM PILUS; BIOGENESIS; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CBL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OSMOLARITY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; BURKHOLDERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA CENOCEPACIA; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 1142298589     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.186.4.1009-1020.2004     Document Type: Article

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