The nickel-responsive regulator NikR controls activation and repression of gene transcription in Helicobacter pylori

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 7252-7258

  Ernst, Florian D ^a   Kuipers, Ernst J ^a   Heijens, Angela ^a   Sarwari, Roya ^a   Stoof, Jeroen ^a   Penn, Charles W ^b   Kusters, Johannes G ^a   Van Vliet, Arnoud H M ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; NICKEL; NIKR PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BINDING SITE; DNA BINDING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; METAL METABOLISM; MOLECULAR CLONING; NIXA GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; STOMACH MUCOSA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UREA GENE;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NICKEL; OPERATOR REGIONS (GENETICS); PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UREASE;

EID: 27744569940     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.73.11.7252-7258.2005     Document Type: Article

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