A novel two-component system controls the expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa fimbrial cup genes

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 368-380

  Kulasekara, Hemantha D ^a   Ventre, Isabelle ^b   Kulasekara, Bridget R ^a   Lazdunski, Andrée ^b   Filloux, Alain ^b   Lory, Stephen ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b CNRS and Aix Marseille University   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN ROCA1; PROTEIN ROCR; PROTEIN ROCS1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOFILM; CELL ORGANELLE; CUPA GENE; CUPB GENE; CUPC GENE; FIMBRIA; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSPOSON; TWO HYBRID SYSTEM;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PROTEIN KINASES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRANSPOSONS;

EID: 13144257722     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04402.x     Document Type: Article

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