Superoxide dismutase-encoding gene of the obligate anaerobe Porphyromonas gingivalis is regulated by the redox-sensing transcription activator OxyR

Microbiology

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 955-966

  Ohara, Naoya ^a   Kikuchi, Yuichiro ^a   Shoji, Mikio ^a   Naito, Mariko ^a   Nakayama, Koji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PROTEIN OXYR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; OXIDATION REDUCTION STATE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REGULON; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; UPREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARTIFICIAL GENE FUSION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BETA-GALACTOSIDASE; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, REPORTER; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OXIDANTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PEROXIDASES; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 33645543011     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.28537-0     Document Type: Article

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