NssR, a member of the Crp-Fnr superfamily from Campylobacter jejuni, regulates a nitrosative stress-responsive regulon that includes both a single-domain and a truncated haemoglobin

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 735-750

  Elvers, Karen T ^a   Turner, Sue M ^b   Wainwright, Laura M ^c   Marsden, Gemma ^d   Hinds, Jason ^d   Cole, Jeffrey A ^b   Poole, Robert K ^c   Penn, Charles W ^b   Park, Simon F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CAMPYLOBACTER GLOBIN; GLOBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN CGB; REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; REGULATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FNR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FUR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NSSR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PERR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; CHROMOSOME INSERTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REGULON; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; STRESS; WILD TYPE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HEAT-SHOCK RESPONSE; HEMOGLOBINS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); REACTIVE NITROGEN SPECIES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REGULON; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI;

EID: 22644447132     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04723.x     Document Type: Article

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