Identification of Chlamydia trachomatis genomic sequences recognized by chlamydial divalent cation-dependent regulator A (DcrA)

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 443-448

  Rau, Annette ^a   Wyllie, Susan ^a,b   Whittimore, Judy ^a   Raulston, Jane E ^a  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; DIVALENT CATION DEPENDENT REGULATOR A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOGENESIS; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEROTYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL WALL; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; OPEN READING FRAMES; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 11844290760     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.2.443-448.2005     Document Type: Article

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