New Listeria monocytogenes prfA* mutants, transcriptional properties of PrfA* proteins and structure-function of the virulence regulator PrfA

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1553-1565

  Vega, Yolanda ^a   Rauch, Markus ^b   Banfield, Mark J ^c,d   Ermolaeva, Svetlana ^a   Scortti, Mariela ^a,c   Goebel, Werner ^b   Vázquez Boland, José A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEÓN   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PRFA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING MOTIF; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULON; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REGULON; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LISTERIA; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 1942541287     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04052.x     Document Type: Article

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