Growth Control of Small-Colony Variants by Genetic Regulation of the Hemin Uptake System

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 2254-2262

  Roggenkamp, Andreas ^a   Hoffmann, Harald ^a   Hornef, Mathias W ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEME; HEMIN; IRON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM COLONY; CLONING; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTER HORMAECHEI; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH REGULATION; HIP PROSTHESIS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; INFECTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMALL COLONY VARIANT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEMIN; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; IRON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 1842535998     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.72.4.2254-2262.2004     Document Type: Article

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