(p)ppGpp regulates type 1 fimbriation of Escherichia coli by modulating the expression of the site-specific recombinase FimB

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1520-1533

  Åberg, Anna ^a   Shingler, Victoria ^a   Balsalobre, Carlos ^a,b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIMB RECOMBINASE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' DIPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE 3' DIPHOSPHATE 5' TRIPHOSPHATE; RECOMBINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIMBRIA; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

AGGLUTINATION; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIOFILMS; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FIMBRIAE, BACTERIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GUANOSINE PENTAPHOSPHATE; GUANOSINE TETRAPHOSPHATE; INTEGRASES; MUTATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SIGMA FACTOR; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UROLOGIC DISEASES; YEASTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 33744457284     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: 13652958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2006.05191.x     Document Type: Article

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