Requirements for Vibrio cholerae HapR binding and transcriptional repression at the hapR promoter are distinct from those at the aphA promoter

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 3013-3019

  Lin, Wei ^a   Kovacikova, Gabriela ^a   Skorupski, Karen ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BASE PAIRING; BINDING SITE; CELL DENSITY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BINDING SITES; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 17644384452     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.9.3013-3019.2005     Document Type: Article

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