Identification of Fur-regulated genes in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 787-796

  Haraszthy, Violet I ^a   Jordan, Shawn F ^a   Zambon, Joseph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; FERRIC UPTAKE REGULATOR PROTEIN; IRON; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; MANGANESE; NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN FUR; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC REGULATION; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULON; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TITRIMETRY; WESTERN BLOTTING; WILD TYPE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; IRON; MANGANESE; MUTATION; REGULON; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33645109350     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28366-0     Document Type: Article

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