Chlamydia trachomatis σ28 recognizes the fliC promoter of Escherichia coli and responds to heat shock in chlamydiae

Microbiology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 205-215

  Shen, Li ^a   Li, Maixiang ^a   Zhang, You Xun ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN FLIC; PROTEIN RPSD; RNA POLYMERASE; SIGMA FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BACTERIAL DNA; FLAGELLIN; FLIA PROTEIN, BACTERIA; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; CELL CULTURE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DNA FLANKING REGION; ENVIRONMENT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEAT SHOCK; HYPOTHESIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RECOMBINANT GENE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSLATION INITIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEAT; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; RICKETTSIALES;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAGELLIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HEAT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SIGMA FACTOR;

EID: 1642432873     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26734-0     Document Type: Article

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