Involvement of AlgQ in transcriptional regulation of pyoverdine genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Journal of Bacteriology

Volumn 187, Issue 15, 2005, Pages 5097-5107

  Ambrosi, Cecilia ^a   Tiburzi, Federica ^a   Imperi, Francesco ^a   Putignani, Lorenza ^b   Visca, Paolo ^a,b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; ALGQ PROTEIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; FUR IRON PROTEIN; FUR PROTEIN; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; NUCLEOSIDE DIPHOSPHATE KINASE; POLYPHOSPHATE; PYOVERDINE; REGULATOR PROTEIN; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RNA POLYMERASE; RPOD PROTEIN; RSD PROTEIN; SIGMA FACTOR; SIGMA FACTOR PVDS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALGQ GENE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; IRON DEPLETION; NDK GENE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA PAO1; PVD GENE; PVDA GENE; STARVATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SIGMA FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA;

EID: 22544436377     PISSN: 00219193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JB.187.15.5097-5107.2005     Document Type: Article

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