The eefABC multidrug efflux pump operon is repressed by H-NS in Enterobacter aerogenes

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3894-3897

  Masi, Muriel ^a   Pagès, Jean Marie ^a   Villard, Claude ^a   Pradel, Elizabeth ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRA GENE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; EEF GENE; EEFABC GENE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI TOLC; FUSION GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LACZ GENE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MULTIDRUG EFFLUX PUMP OPERON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, MDR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; LAC OPERON; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OPERON; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 18944395884     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.11.3894-3897.2005     Document Type: Article

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