The H-NS protein represses transcription of the eltAB operon, which encodes heat-labile enterotoxin in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, by binding to regions downstream of the promoter

Microbiology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1199-1208

  Yang, Ji ^a,b   Tauschek, Marija ^a,b   Strugnell, Richard ^a,b   Robins Browne, Roy M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI ENTEROTOXIN; HISTONE LIKE NUCLEOID STRUCTURING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROTOXINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE SILENCING; GENES, BACTERIAL; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OPERON; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 17644424275     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.27734-0     Document Type: Article

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