Transcriptional regulation in Yersinia: An update

Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 151-178

  Marceau, Michael ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ION; ENTEROTOXIN; HEMIN; INVASIN; ION; MAGNESIUM ION; SIGMA FACTOR RPOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; VIRULENCE FACTOR; YERSINIABACTIN;

BACTERIAL FLAGELLUM; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMOTAXIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DNA DAMAGE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; IRON TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OPERON; OSMOLARITY; OXYGEN TENSION; PH; PLASMID; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; STRESS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL STIMULATION; THERMOREGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; YERSINIA; YERSINIA ENTEROCOLITICA; YERSINIA PESTIS; YERSINIA PSEUDOTUBERCULOSIS;

ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENTEROTOXINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; TEMPERATURE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE; VIRULENCE FACTORS; YERSINIA;

YERSINIA;

EID: 22944479296     PISSN: 14673037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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